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Supreme Court rules against Tesco's ‘fire and rehire’ tactics (morningstaronline.co.uk)

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[–] zante@lemmy.wtf 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

[Karl Marx]

I’d be interesting in hearing any defence of what I believe is indefensible.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’d love the few paragraphs preceding that.

The sentence makes sense on its own, and i agree with it, but I’d love the surrounding context.

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Here you go, it's in chapter 10 section 4, p175: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The commodity fetishism one?

Man I read this exact passage a long time ago in my intro to social theory seminar:

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'll be honest, I just looked it up and shared the link (E: and in case you didn't notice, am not the op of the thread), I'm no good with texts that long so have never read the entire thing, though I have left the link open to read through at least this part once I have my cuppa, and have bookmarked the pdf for future reference, so I might have to get back to you on that 😁

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Ah thanks for the edit, it helps, because there are a lot of section 4’s

[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.

Same thing really but I really like Fishers incorporation of zombies