grubernitsch (kroobaneech)
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Motion graphics artist who almost became an academic. Translating Robert Kurz (ger/eng). KPÖ Graz (the only city in the West with a communist mayor). What would they say? https://www.youtube.com/@grubernitsch https://www.youtube.com/@whatwouldtheysay1220
"Es hat ihr [der Arbeiterbewegung] nichts genützt daß sie die Bekenntnisse zum Gehorsam vervielfacht hat." Gilles Dauvé - 1917-1937 - Wenn Aufstände sterben - Arbeiterbürokratie und die Nazis (man warf ihr nicht vor, dem Vaterland zu schaden, sondern dem Geldschrank der besitzenden Klassen)
Story- and animation-wise, this 2019 video was, and probably still is, the wwts magnum opus. It should not be overemphasized that we had the late Austrian Social Democratic chancellor Bruno Kreisky narrate it (thanks Andi Unger; English subtitles included).
Bruno Kreisky #09 – Der Bobo und der Pöbel
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"Commodities have no individual value, only an indiv. price. The prices, however, must appear directly in the value-form, expressing the real value, namely the respective share of the real society-wide mass of value that the commodity can draw to itself when it is sold." – Robert Kurz (t9n)
This should be read as a rant against hypostatizers and pseudo-materialists.
Karl Marx #01 – Elevator Piatch – What would they say? #wwts
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During the Second World War, for example, the United States provided around 40% of all the material used by all parties combined, but only 12% of the manpower. It's like claiming to help with the housework by paying a cleaner.
Was wirklich hilfreich scheint, ist die völlige Gleichgültigkeit bezüglich Rückmeldungen. Allein deshalb ist mir Bluesky schon 1000-mal sympathischer als Twitter.
Was haben wir gelernt Genozid verüben die anderen, unsere verrichten die "Drecksarbeit" Wir haben kein Wort für Russenhass (Phobie ist schwach, es wäre z.B. lächerlich den Nazis Judenphobie vorzuwerfen) Demokratieabbau passiert in westlichen Demokratien während andere autoritär bleiben
Here is a short passage from Georg Lukács's Destruction of Reason:
Capitalism has produced more losers than winners from the start.
Wie der Kupferstich-Hegel, ist auch der Piatch recht gut gealtert.
GWF Hegel #01 – Elevator Piatch
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I bet it's annoying to have the political puppet you installed switched out democratically every few years.
"This whole interrelation of abstract labor, value, commodity, money, market, state, nation, democracy shapes what constitutes this basic categorical framework of capitalist socialization." (English subtitles)
Robert Kurz – Zur Kritik der Arbeit (2005) (Deutsche Untertitel)
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Johanna Dohnal Piatch aus 2022, über das Patriarchat, nein, die Klassengesellschaft und die großen Wiedersprüche des Kapitalismus (Umweltkrisen, Pauperisierung, Biogenetik, Intellektuelles Eigentum) Stimme: Susi Ramberger (English subtitles)
Johanna Dohnal #01 – Elevator Piatch
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Es hat schon ganz gut gehalten, dieses Teil vom vom Neujahr 2019. youtu.be/AKU6r_SA7Zk?...
Bruno Kreisky #08 –Neujahresansprache 2019
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Die „Extraktivismus“-Ökonomien, also Orte, an denen die Bergbau-Profiteure am Ruder sind (USA, Kanada ... aber auch Russland, wenngleichs dort komplizierter ist) sind besonders anfällig den eigenen Ideen zum Opfer zu fallen. Das anstrengende Fachwort lautet „Hypostase” ... "the rules have changed
"Das Gesetz komme mit „massiven Grundrechtseingriffen“ daher und sei so nicht tragbar, sagte Anwalt Michael Rohregger. Es handle sich um eine „bislang unvergleichlich invasive Maßnahme." orf.at/stories/3434...
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I learned much more since university. Essentially, I'm finally doing what the professors tried to get us to do back then, which led to us getting really good at faking it.
"Wer aber vom Kapitalismus nicht reden will, sollte auch vom Faschismus schweigen." Dieser Horkheimer-Sager ist wichtig, wenn flott und zurecht über den Mob in Belfast (ein Pogrom) gezogen wird, während man aber gesittet den letzten Amnesty-Bericht über die Siedlergewalt im Westjordanland verdaut.
Vulgar understanding suggests that the “collapse” must be as instantaneous as a person suffering a massive heart attack dropping dead on the spot. If, in this sense, capitalism did not crumble to dust [...], then this is hastily taken as an “empirical refutation” of radical crisis theory ..."
MwV Part VIII – Robert Kurz – Money Without Value (2012) In 193 Snippets
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She was ahead of her time (video from 2022)
Johanna Dohnal #01 – Elevator Piatch
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"... those clever individual capitals were able to move from healthy contraction to enormous business expansion by buying for a song the components of other individual capitals that had previously been devalued by ruin but were still functional at the level of the productivity standard."
MwV Part VII – Robert Kurz – Money without Value (2012) in 193 snippets
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"In fact, the institutional guardians of capitalism are using more and more adventurous methods to postpone the long overdue devaluation shock, [...] In this respect, the elites, who are ready to commit any emergency crime, are even more aware of reality than ..."
MwV Part VI – Robert Kurz – Money without Value (2012) in 193 snippets
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" 14 ... The Internal-Historical Compensation Mechanism and its Logical Limits" "it is important to note that the ills and upheavals associated with this process tend to obscure the categorical level and are easily used for false analogies by means of historical back-projections."
MwV Part V – Robert Kurz – Money Without Value (2012) In 193 Snippets
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2/2 Because if everyone is a celebrity, there are no spectators left. If everyone is an entrepreneur, there are no more workers.
1/2 It is amusing when online culture (number go up!) twists Immanuel Kant to justify its own existence. After all, the categorical imperative—“Act in such a way that the maxim of your action could serve as a universal law”—can only be applied with a heavy heart.
"An unmistkbl. indication of the ideol. character of this way of thinking is that its reps. have no use for Marx’s concept of the fetish or for (negative) dialectics as the form of cognition of negative soclzon., and that they ignore or reject and even directly negate these aspects of Marx’s thry."
MwV Part IV – Robert Kurz – Money without Value (2012) in 193 snippets
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"Jameson also suppresses the explanation of the internal mechanisms of the collapse, reducing it to a mere effect of global dynamics)."
A note on Fredric Jameson and Robert Kurz
Marcos Barreira / October 2024 « In our time, however, it is Robert Kurz who has most powerfully drawn the ultimate conclusions from this dialectical situation in his stunning book, Der Kollaps der…
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"This concept oscillates diffusely between meaning an objective validity (in the sense of an autonomized, actually reified fetish relation), as it is clearly meant by Marx, and “validity” as a subjective “validation” (in the sense of the bourgeois idea of a contract or decree). "
MwV Part III – Robert Kurz – Money Without Value (2012) In 193 Snippets
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