It's time, lads. Big Wolff is doing an /ama/, and we have a chance to ask him some pretty good questions. First tip of the fedora goes to the person who asks "What's the time Mr Wolff?".
Namedropping Holla Forums will be pretty funny too, tbh.
Do you also know how to bump a thread? Also, it saves time for those on phones.
Camden Harris
fuck off
keep up the good work
Noah Anderson
Shiiet, he writes follow ups to trolls.
What a year to be alive.
Jason Reyes
Someone with an account ask him what he thinks about cat girls.
Dominic Reed
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Austin Walker
make a throw away and do it yourslef you liberal piece of shit :^)
Owen Hughes
What a faggot. Alpha Wolff is too good for him.
Joshua Ramirez
go back to reddit, retard
Jaxon Green
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Henry Rivera
You go the fuck back to reddit. I don't have any intention to go there, which is why I like seeing the screenshots.
Elijah Martinez
we must preserve the purity of the chan race
Chase Martinez
RDW politely schoolin'
Luis Hughes
Christianity and Marxism
Noah Moore
So far no one is calling him on his Podemos/Syriza fanboyism and hype nor on his other flip flops. I expect this to be conducted like all AMA's in that subreddit, with prepared questions and answers a-plenty, vote manipulation, abundant strawman-ing via prepared trolls to false flag critical questions and preserve the pretense of authenticity.
Lucas Price
Watch out The spooky scary reddit boogeyman will get you Faggot
William Rodriguez
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Cooper Foster
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Andrew Perez
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Hudson Ortiz
Ask him what he thinks of LTV
Angel Johnson
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Ryder Gutierrez
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Samuel Richardson
knew he was a young thug fan
Luke Wright
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Aiden James
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Hudson Parker
HE ANSWERED ME NIGGERS
Aiden Jackson
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Easton Russell
u fags did this
Jason Carter
Except Marx wrote what State should do. Or is there someone who thinks all would be achieved without organization?
Logan Rogers
anarkiddies
Elijah Sanchez
we get it, he answered you
quit spamming
Dylan Bailey
*post-leftists
Samuel Rodriguez
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John White
That wasn't me, that was bacon-poster and some other faggot.
Benjamin Gray
sorry, steak-poster, his flag looks more like steak
Austin Campbell
that freud cigar, he alternates between downloading communism, Lenin hat and Freud cigar.
He's addressed that issue before, basically said that the rich should pay for their resettlement, welfare and immigration or they shouldn't come at all.
Ayden Price
that's an OK question
Cooper Anderson
Real talk
Luke Walker
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Brandon Williams
feels good man
Aiden Fisher
Oh man this is awesome I read all his responses in his voice with his absolutely delicious disdainful pronunciation of everything capitalist.
Parker Wright
any traces of glorious marxian theory left at UC Berkeley, or they went full IdPol too?
Grayson King
Me too
Sebastian Powell
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Caleb Garcia
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Cooper Martin
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Julian Jenkins
Yes. State doesn't matter, except it should do all the heavy lifting.
Culturally enriched Marxism.
New iPhone?
Well, it's not like he'll answer questions he doesn't like.
Landon Kelly
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Christopher Rodriguez
"You are pomo and you can't do math - unlike me, who's super serial."
Now try to defend yourself,fgt!
Julian Myers
It is confirmed. Corbyn is a class traitor.
John Phillips
"class traitor!" (says the Stalinist)
Henry White
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Nicholas Johnson
Come on, I've seen worse on Holla Forums.
Yeah. USSR didn't exist.
Adrian Sanchez
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Kayden Lewis
You were made to feel stupid and disloyal because you ARE stupid and disloyal.
Your culture of critique talks about removing power structures, but replaces them with nothing but pure anarchy and despotism.
Leo Richardson
Go be a slave somewhere else.
Disdainful sage.
Lucas Diaz
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Evan Adams
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Jace Foster
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Thomas Brown
via
Ryan Green
No one cares, state capitalism is retarded
Aaron Phillips
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Gabriel Bell
What are you even talking about?
Wyatt Reed
You know damn well, faggot.
Bentley Gray
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Nathan Russell
Political discourse at its finest.
Why did I even bother asking? If post looks dumb - the poster is retard 9 out of 10 times.
Oliver Roberts
gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8
Jackson Adams
Is that in a capped post above?
Charles Nelson
He didn't say they worked with fascists. More that they were able to establish their system in spite of the fascists.
John Watson
KEK
Jaxon Nelson
can you not read?
Jace Garcia
HUN comradely bump
Levi Jackson
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Chase Butler
cool
Isaac Morgan
Guessed as much.(USER WAS SENT TO GULAG FOR BEING WHINY LITTLE BITHC)
Julian Perez
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Kayden Butler
Can you go be triggered somewhere else?
Connor Morales
no, i didnt type the correct url, read it
Wyatt Garcia
TL;DR Two interesting comments by RDW.
First, this one, for it talks about transition from capitalism to socialism:
IMO, the problem with market socialism still remains, especially with this part: Why would a highly profitable factory decide to start distributing their products based on other means than through the market if its against their interests?
This response is worth saving for future debates with le fedora types.
Logan Anderson
leftism strikes again
so lemme get this straight coops will lose competition to top-down enterprises state will bail them out yes, totally gonna work…
Henry Cook
Take it with a pinch of salt, he's obviously popularizing here. The state could force larger (or all) companies into coops. I don't see how that's not possible. The problem is moving from coops to socialism proper, imo.
Chase Flores
Has anyone asked him about the 'Cultrual Marxism' conspiracy, and SJWs?
Isaac Mitchell
this was pretty close
Kayden Stewart
You mean that shitstick that bans Holla Forums on sight? Ech.
Christian Jones
Educate yourself faggot
Jace Taylor
Think someone should ask him about identity politics and how to deal with reactionary groups?
Angel Peterson
AKA this is where Muke went wrong.
Adam Wood
I like the stuff he's talking about, it's offering a fresh perspective on marxism and obviously an educated one, much better than the usual "it's dialectics I ain't gotta explain shit".
I really wanna see him talk about post-keynesian economics, =(
Kayden Myers
will never happen =)
Ryder Smith
Maybe ask him?
Also, hope you survive your dead cell disease. Good luck comr8.
Andrew Scott
u wot m8, rebel's dying?
Thomas Ortiz
wew
Dylan Gutierrez
wow, jill is a fucking skellington
Jace Martinez
You could try sending him an email.
Matthew Davis
The vast majority of competition between capitalist industries is how much they can make their workers to make the lowest wages possible. This is why American workers can't compete with Chinese workers.
Also, coops are a much different system of labor organization. It's literally comparing apples to oranges.
Wyatt Brooks
the problem is if we have market where there are private enterprises and coops, coops will be crushed, because enterprises can invest more capital to increase productivity and therefore their rate of profit those superprofits will be taken away from coops means their rate of profit will fall in the end coops go bankrupt
all this larping around coops is pointless competition leads to monopoly, does not matter if market agents are coops or whatever hell, modern corporations have multiple stockholders, they are coops in a sense
Petite-bourgeois sentiments is what it is big government is bad and scary NKVD and gulags but please protect our ass and be market arbiter
classic throw pdf and run away tactic
Jeremiah Sanders
maybe not, but it seems correct to me all the same. I want to a Marxian's perspective on it though.
I'm too lazy to compete with ledditors. What else can I do? Ty btw
recovering. cancer
good idea, might do that tomorrow
Justin Jones
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William Hernandez
He has lung cancer, so it's extremely likely. Comrade didn't even get to die in a revolution…
Skeleton master race.
Liam Rodriguez
the first part you are correct about which is why he says the state needs to give help to co-ops and aid them. I don't know if he knows it, but Wolff is agreeing with Post-keynesians on this one actually.
why? Are you aware of dead weight? Oligopolies, like we have now, are actually a result of certain incorrect (please do not miss this important qualifier***) state interference believe it or not. The austrians do have that part correct.
Big government isn't bad. Undemocratic, pervasive government is. I also think you mean centralised.
Easton Jenkins
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Adrian Cox
Wolff is not a Marxist. He is a socialist, but philosophically he's Althusserian and veering on post-modern relativist. His take on the economy is not Marxist at all except for his social focus and acceptance of class struggle.
Jayden Baker
Rebel's still recovering from Muke's debate.
Lincoln Hughes
I know, I said Marxian. Marxian means ascribes to marxian economics. Doesn't mean Marxist.
Robert Walker
His analysis of wages is clearly Marxian
Jace Foster
Yes, how dare someone critique shit that isn't some game or movie. kys
Kevin Jenkins
boi, you may not know it, but you are more and more dialectical by the day without realizing it.
Owen Thomas
a lot of people who ascribe to marxian economics are not marxists my dude
Leo Turner
Full Hegelianism soon my man
Christian Young
All competition is oligopic, a perfectly competitive market is a fiction.
Camden Lee
Perhaps that might be right when we're talking about metaphysics, but we're not talking metaphysics, instead about economic theory. The dead weight graphs apply all the same.
Ryan Turner
There is also no such thing as a popular government that can't expropriate and regulate regardless of private business in the country, or do you not trust the power of the people, comrade?
You are being one sided.
Ethan Reed
Make a start on Capital at any point.
Alexander Barnes
Make a start on the Accumulation of Capital at any point.
Ethan Nguyen
He's talking about things to do with volume 3 stuff, and it's stuff that isn't covered by Marx.
You don't need to read Capital to see what he's talking about. You're literally a one track dogmatist who doesn't think at all. You could have read all 7 books of the Capital project, and you clearly have no comprehension.
Carter Jenkins
REEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKTTTTTT
IN A FUCKING GULAG!
Christian Watson
tendency to concentration of capital each cycle someone goes bankrupt each cycle in already established industries required capital to enter market grows bigger and bigger take seel industry for example
as for olygopolies, I believe they are temporary alliances in stable times to keep prices on some level when shit hits the fan they will be at each other throats
Levi Richardson
Wew.
Good to know you both missed the part regarding the decrease in the rate of profit. But from someone who can't grapple with the basic materialist interpretation, that's hardly surprising.
Brody Butler
That doesn't mean what you think it means. Please go watch kapitalism 101 since you're a theory babby. Leave Capital and its terms for the big theorists.
Ethan Rogers
You shouldn't be saying things like this when you're struggling with the 11 thesis.
Hunter Garcia
I think that under market socialism, and Wolff has talked about this as well, when workers control the industries and make up the tax base entirely, they'll have much greater control. Much of the lobbying being done now isn't even on behalf of corporations but by capitalists themselves. Without the capitalists, I believe a state under market socialism would be able to regulate markets and be more fair overall.
Brandon Price
I feel bad for someone like you who can't even think about those critically.
And how do we get to the Wolffian vision? By popular will. The will of the people today is one of cucked losers who refuse to do what must be done out of self-interested fear. The very thing that makes gommunism possible makes market socialism possible.
Cameron Collins
The will of the people is a rather abstract thing. In terms of effecting actual change, its usually a small number of highly visible individuals such as politicians, and a decent amount of grassroots activists are needed in the first place. What makes market socialism more likely to happen than communism is the fact that people don't associate it with muh 13235 trillion, and similarly liberals and conservatives don't know how to respond to it properly.
Jacob Ward
Or someone like you who can't think about them at all.
Levi Mitchell
The will of the people isn't some abstract thing. It's literally just the collective will that appears at the ballot box in any group of self-government. There is nothing mysterious about it.
If people realized the power of the state and economy is actually their power and they willed to change it, believe it, it would fucking change. It's social ignorance and lack of political will, apathy towards the political, which allows crook after crook to be elected without consequences and with people not learning a goddam thing after a century of voting garbage in.
Nicholas Smith
you mean how much they can lower costs of production
thing is those apples and oranges compete for resources in the same environment
it doesn't matter what internal structure apples and oranges have what matters is that they are competitors for the same limited resource
Lincoln Torres
wtf I love Tito now
Jason Cook
The will of the people cannot be represented. Read Rousseau.
Anyway, people do not will the current state of affairs, as you describe it, there is a lack of will. We need a strategy that can work under those conditions.
Nicholas Bennett
why wouldn't they be? Class existed long before markets, there's no reason to suspect an inherit class element to markets.
Elijah Wilson
The "general will" cannot because there is none. The will of the people, however, is the rule of democracy. That people accept the results of the final vote is their will, self-imposed. When the people will to change the state it will not stand up to their dissent.
Isaiah Carter
No, you misunderstand, the will of the people and the general will cannot be represented because it is destroyed in the process of being represented. Once the election is over, most people have no credible say in policymaking. If you really want to have democracy you need local direct policy making. That is the only legitimate kind of state. That is the only scenario when people have more freedom than they would without a state.
What we have now is a republic, one in which there is no room for the kind of idealism you're peddling.
Oliver Johnson
Except, for you know, fucking engaging the political process and enforcing their will and showing that there are consequences for betraying the populace. The cucks in the 1st world today think protesting one day and shouting angrily is somehow engaging the process and then get disillusioned and give up like the losers they are. The people in general have this apathetic attitude that if it takes more than a couple hours of one day then it's time to blame everything on the other and corruption etc, and just cry about it.
Democracy is the truth of the state. If people don't rise, of course nothing is going to change.
David Nelson
You really don't get it. The system is set up so its difficult to impossible for the average person to have a say in policy. You write a letter to a senator, you get an automatic reply. You try to talk to them one on one, you have to wait in line behind all the rich capitalist fucks and their paid lobbyists.
What we need is a real independent and third party force (of market socialists imo), starting with power on the local level (which is easiest) and working up.
Ayden Rogers
That's stupid. Politics doesn't work like that.
Brandon Rogers
Most politicians start out on the local level and then work their way up.
Brandon Campbell
You don't get it.
What you said about the system being shit IS precisely because people show they have no backbone to demand election reform. The beginning? To stop fucking voting for sellout garbage in the current dominant parties.
Samuel Phillips
Won't do shit if you don't present a viable alternative. And as much as I appreciate the greens they are far too hippy to be viable in even most local elections
Carson Cox
Politicians, not political parties. It's like you didn't even read what you wrote.
Landon Miller
It's not like we can break up the two big parties on the national scale, better to start small and develop a loyal base of support. Besides we don't want to end up like the democrats who have conceded most local elections to republicans.
How is that in any way analogous to what I'm proposing?
Ryan Torres
this gon be good
Noah Gomez
Is it possible for ancaps not to be cringey?
Henry Anderson
Pretty much the same thing.
Also, one of them doesn't typically waste excess resources in order to avoid under consumption and artificially increase demand.
IKR?
Pick one.
Jaxson Diaz
I get that gun manufacturers are no better than any other corporation and that the NRA is one big advertising arm for said industry, but anyone who supports gun control because the NRA is against it is full of shit, especially in the context of a liberal society where these laws are going to be disproportionately enforced upon minorities and the poor. Every worker ought to own and know how to use a gun.