Johnson Forest City
johnsonforestcity.bsky.social
Johnson Forest City
@johnsonforestcity.bsky.social
Abstract labor hater. Stop the thing-ification of social relations.

Have mercy, been waitin' for the bus all day.
I got my brown paper bag and my take-home pay
with romantic theories of the state and their feudal anti-capitalism, with Prussianism and socialism or other ideologies as premature solutions of social contradictions."
December 31, 2024 at 4:24 PM
..They fill nihilism-this eminently synchronous contradiction in the retinue of late capitalism, this ideological parallel to the commodity reification of all people and things-with hybrid structures, such as the war spirit of 1914..
December 31, 2024 at 4:24 PM
"There are today harmonizing images of the past which merely seek to retract or to subordinate to themselves the excesses of capitalism...
December 31, 2024 at 4:23 PM
I read some excerpts years ago but wasn't impressed still being oriented around labor time.
November 27, 2024 at 9:57 PM
November 27, 2024 at 6:09 PM
"Lipietz presents a cogent and convincing argument that traditional Marxist economics has concentrated too heavily on the production process at the price of ignoring day-to-day forms of capitalist commerce—money and commodities."

Looked it up and sounds on point.

Love some Marxist economics
November 13, 2024 at 7:51 PM
-Foucault, Society Must be Defended, p. 79.

(note race used here is not referring to later use of biological and medical sense of the term.. and the citation to Marx is actually less direct than that quote? But still holds I think)
November 13, 2024 at 7:18 PM
From that collection, a new translation of Johannes Agnoli's "Destruction as the Determination of the Scholar in Miserable Times" has also been transcribed and available here. Much of Agnoli's work is not available in English but keep an eye on Libcom for more: 

libcom.org/article/dest...
Destruction as the Determination of the Scholar in Miserable Times - Johannes Agnoli
Johannes Agnoli was a Italian Marxist political scientist, though he rejected the label Marxist, preferring instead - somewhat ironically - to call himself an Agnolist. Werner Bonefeld, a founder of O...
libcom.org
October 6, 2023 at 4:43 PM