/lit/ - Literature

i don't understand marx, /lit/ marxtrannies is this even close?
>bourgeois mode of production gradually erodes/overthrows feudal mode (privilege/monopoly based) in revolutions
>bourgeois conception of production is based on "free exchange" of private property by atomistic selfish individuals
>private property = alienable property
>property = product of human labor
>therefore private property = alienated labor put on market as commodity
>therefore when bourgeois looks at labor, he already sees just another commodity (labor) to be bought/sold (via wages) competitively (a priori presuming the selfishness of all buyers/sellers) at profit, based on individual initiative
>once "free" exchange has begun, after arbitrary feudal monopolies are overthrown by bourgeois revolutions and reforms, unequal historical/accidental conditions in initial wealth distribution will tend toward de facto monopolies
>older elites will convert what used to be their legally recognized property under feudalism to the new bourgeois legal form of property (capital) to survive
>big bourgeoisie will tend to contract and concentrate, pushing some petty bourgeoisie into proletariat
>proletariat will tend to be immiserated because labour-time/wages are just another commodity, and bourgeois economics establishes (all things being equal) minimum average prices for commodities during normal competitive market conditions
>furthermore, gains in production efficiency from technological improvement don't distribute to workers, they further increase owners' profits while workers are expendable
>bourgeois form of economics = fundamentally based on individual owners buying/selling competitively = whole economic system is driven by moment to moment fluctuations in supply/demand profitability rather than any rational standards (like actual social need)
>overproduction thus endemic and crises inevitable
>inevitably in these crises and boom/bust cycles, the proletariat, which has already been pushed to bare subsistence by market averaging of its wages/labor-time as commodity, will recurrently be laid off en masse or pushed into extreme situations where the only options are to starve or to expropriate/kill the owners
>all this stems from bourgeois ownership of means of production + general societal acceptance that "individual ownership" of "private property" is a universally valid economic truth
>if you get proletarians to realize this is arbitrary bullshit that just makes wealth accumulate to where wealth has already accumulated, they will be that much more willing to kill/expropriate the owners when shit hits the fan
>which it always will because overproduction/crisis
what am i messing up or oversimplifying, i don't understand economics and i get lost every time he starts talking about land rent

>make a thread here asking a question
>anon replies
>his reply is too smart / advanced for me so i don't understand what he is talking about
what are some books for this feel?

Cras spectabor a magistram meam in universitatas et nihil discebam.
Victimam mei actionis pauperarum sum.

>>19786370
>1) you need to get used to nouns being disconnected by their adjectives
>ex: saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram. Saevae is modifying Iunonis and memorem iram.

How do I cope with the fact that I will never, ever, EVER understand highbrow literature?

>>19448374
But wouldn't Kant agree that the ideal is prior to and above the material and that this knowledge takes precedence over empirical sensory data?
Or are you saying that Kant's whole point was basically just "We can't really know anything"

Yeah I got nothing. You sure do sound smart OP. Do you want my gf?

>>19038861
anon the only sound and fury character i am the is the retarded guy
>>19038830
>>19038861
>>19038871
thanks anons for believing in me
idk
im gonna post my pitch here that I emailed to my professor bc idc what's he's gonna do, tell me he browses lit at midnight and saw my post?

TITLE HERE tells the tale of a young man, full of agitation and anxiety, taking a road trip to from Oklahoma to Florida. As this short story progresses, it is slowly revealed Florida is the location where the main character was sexually assaulted by his mother as well as a location that was not exempt from his father’s abuse.
The main character of this story would be a young white man, from an upper middle-class background, who has just finished high school. Exploring unresolved trauma, the aforementioned assault in this story would have happened a few years in the past, short enough to where it is still fresh but still long enough to fester within him. Other characters would include the main character’s mother and siblings, who are taking the trip with him. The story will chronicle his time on the road with his family, as he slowly becomes more stressed and agitated as he returns to the site of his past trauma.
The location of the story would begin starting in an unnamed Oklahoman city and the family will travel through various landmarks, cities, and towns in the southern united states, including the Mississippi River. The location will follow the southern gothic tradition and will be an integral part of its story, full of various locations that are both unnamed yet so familiar to readers of the region. The time period of this story would take place within the last 10 years, but there will no be major signifiers of the time beyond smartphones. It will be an unnamed year, somewhere within the timeframe of 2010 to 2019.


>>19038890
based and dog pilled
ironically, sniffing your own ass and farts and liking is a pretentious thing i think

>>18554436
'How to Read Literature like a Professor' did not prepare me for this one.

>>18294174
>Ruins the church with pseudo-intellectual faggotry
>How did this guy create such a powerful philosophical worldview that all the Abrahamic religions had to steal his shit to even compete?
It's ok with us that you aren't very intelligent.

We got too cocky landbros....

>>16986754

>be me
>little kid
>big harry potter fan
>think it's real
>kid in my class is a burn victim
>day before xmas break
>we are watching harry potter
>part in the movie when heromine fixes harry's glasses
>ask kid if he thinks magic can fix his face
>he cries

oops...

(also im the anon who thought the criippled kid was a saytr and took his crutches and pulled down his pants)

I feel like I have a terrible grasp of the English language. In my head, I can visualize what I want write but when I actually try to articulate it, it comes out all clunky.

I envy people who are able to articulate their feelings so well that I'm actually able to emphasize with them.

>itt : we post stupid things we did because of books, preferably as a kid

>kissed my elbow thinking it would make me a girl
>ending up pulling something in my neck

>asked a crippled kid if he was a saytr like in percy jackson
>he cried

>found a rat in our cabinets as kid
>gave him cookies
>ended up making the rat problem worse
>dad spanked me really hard

looking for monster girl encyclopedia vol 1 and 2 pdfs to download

>tfw slept with a guy because I thought it'd make me more /lit/ like famous homosexual authors such as Wilde, Hemmingway, Baldwin, Stoker, Burroughs, and John Green
>tfw I'm straight
>tfw I bottomed
>tfw I didn't like it

I exposed myself as a pseud

how long does it take to read dracula

>>16469465
>INFP-A and Aristotelian
Have I done it wrong bros?

>>16287944
listen here jack im kind of retarded but im trying to start a discussion about a classic science fiction short story

so suck a fat donkey boner you kike piece of shit

am i cringe if i get a bachelors in creative writing and then a masters in creative writing so i can teach this at a uni level

am i a pesud if i liked 'pride and prejudice'

it was kind of a hard read but the drama was juicy as fuck and those old brits were straight beefing and giving backhand insults to each other 24/7

i feel the need to say
im not in hs
im 20 years old
and its summer
so this isnt a "4chan help me with my homework!" kind of thread
but like
in the great gatsby
why is the dude so shocked the books are real
like
ive read the book twice but for some reason that sticks out to me like
why is it so shocking the books arent cut up
i dont get it