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Garlic is now an existential emergency and threatens US national security. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 60 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour. Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

I'm starting to think Marx wasn't just using an allegory there.

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

Chinese garlic growers develop holy water irrigation system, but at what cost?