/lit/ - Literature

What is the difference between love and hate?

>>11675177
In a world of just capitalists investing in means of production and paying wages to workers to purchase means of consumption how can a net profit for capitals emerge? Non-capitalist producers [peasants, petty agricultural producers, etc] can pay not just with money they receive from capitalists, when they sell their agricultural products, but they have independent sources of wealth i.e. they possess means of production, their land and today even [formerly "actually existing socialist" states] state-owned enterprises with factories. When this source of wealth is exhausted, capital can loan money to these peasants and their governments -- with the collateral being their land and the mineral wealth beneath it. Of course capitalists can lend to workers but such loans are limited because workers own and can use as collateral only that which they've bought with capitalist wages houses, cars and so on. Nothing can be produced with them, they can just be resold. With non-capitalist layers, however, the land itself is the collateral, and as peasant families, or entire nations default on such loans, capital forecloses, seizing in the process vast real wealth, vast means of producing new wealth.
Credit is capitalized under the capitalist organization of the forces of production, and capitalized credit makes its own demands for realized value. The accumulation of debt is the accumulation of value that cannot be realized within the capitalist mode of production itself and requires access to values "outside" the system of capitalist production strictly speaking.
Think about how in the late 19th century European banks would lend to regimes in the Middle East. The value that secured these loans was extracted from pre-capitalist modes of production through the cooperation of the governments to which the loans were made e.g. in Egypt large scale production of single crops for the world market was financed by these loans based on the forced labour of the Egyptian peasants and in Turkey the building of railroads for the introduction of capitalist commodities was financed by loans to the Turkish state which repaid these loans by its power to tax the Turkish peasants.
Today we must of course consider the role of international sex/drug trafficking as playing a big role:
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims
>Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were "the only liquid investment capital" available to some banks on the brink of collapse last year. He said that a majority of the $352bn (£216bn) of drugs profits was absorbed into the economic system as a result.
https://ratical.org/co-globalize/narcoDollars.html
This article claims that the US economy is entirely dependant on illicit drug money and the withdrawal of it would collapse the global economy to collapse.

Are you interested in government biowarfare experiments gone wrong?

The Extremely Unfortunate Skull Valley Incident.... & it's sequel The Brucellosis Triangle - The Neuro-degenerative/Systemic-degenerative Diseases... Summaries can be found here: http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/activism/skullvalley.html http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/activism/brucellosis-scott.html
Lab 257 - The Disturbing Story of the Government Secret Plum Island Germ Lab
Osler’s Web - Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
Clouds of Secrecy - The Army’s Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Area
Germs Gone Wild - How the Unchecked Development of Domestic Biodefense Threatens America

>>9653307
>second law of thermodynamics
mere bourgeois pseudo-science to prevent us from harnessing the infinite powers of the universe; matter is always in motion, it never stops developing

>>8847234
I just watched that yesterday, to bad Curtis is an infantile liberal globalist or it could have been a lot better. His central thesis is fundamentally wrong on many levels. He has a rather superficial understanding of the actual deep nature of the post-Bretton Woods world order. You can't just reduce and interpret everything to some generalized [engineered] disillusionment.

If you want to how deep things really go here's some reading to start you off with:

The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective
Wall Street's Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014
The Making Of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy Of American Empire
Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation
American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan
The Dual State: Parapolitics, Carl Schmitt and the National Security Complex


Something to really look into is the deep role that organized crime played in what happened to the USA economy beginning with the '60s and '70s mergers and acquisitions booms and especially the '80s leveraged buy-out boom... "Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers" would be a good place to start with that

but if you share with the plebs it's no longer esoteric knowledge
the process of discovery is central

ill deliver you a g of the kush kush if you drop an epic ryhme

I'm looking for a book that speaks in a way that is so maddening that when you put it down you feel a sort of vertigo for reality. I'm not looking for books that try to undermine science or something, I'm just looking for something that will make me feel like my thoughts are spiraling. One that speaks evenly, so that I'm lead into the madness naturally, not confused. Because it's hard to feel like you're going insane when your mind is confused, it works better when you feel lucid, but feel reality sort of crumbling.