I told my brother that we live in a bourgeois dictatorship and he told me I was crazy. When a liberal calls something a dictatorship I have no idea what they mean.
First of all, this shit isn't unconstitutional. That's up to the Supreme court and they seem fine with it. Second, we have the premiere bourgeois constitution. That thing isn't doing shit for me. The bill of rights we're all supposed to love is just a list of things the state can't do on your behalf.
Commodities generally sell at their value, which is the sum of the value of all the input commodities (which I'm pretty sure Marx calls raw materials) and the final input of labor power needed to make those raw materials into a new product. Demand adjusts according to the price (people may want something, but not at the price offered). What's important is that the seller makes a profit selling the commodity at its value, not by doing a markup of any sort. This is because the wage paid to the worker is less than the value they create. The worker is not compensated for all of the value they create. This is where profit comes from.
Read Value, Price, and Profit for a synopsis of some ideas provided in Capital.
Yeah, I've heard the same. However, it seems that relative to the US, the Russian Federation is less inclined towards exacerbating ethnic/racial resentment in order to pacify their population. They're not using their best weapon, so there's always hope. Also, Navalny is dead, so that helps too.
It's interesting to see people's homemade propaganda videos using the hammer and sickle. The old heads aren't the only people pining away for the Soviet Union.
Most Westerners don't realize they can go to China themselves, also the reason none of the countless Chinese people that live in the west talk about the trauma from experiencing these atrocities is because they never happened.
I told my brother that we live in a bourgeois dictatorship and he told me I was crazy. When a liberal calls something a dictatorship I have no idea what they mean.