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@czerwonykasztelanic
Name's Adam. Adult + from Poland + male (on/he/él, et cetera), transmisogyny-exempt. Marxist-Leninist.
Primarily interested in: modern history and various strains of engineering (power, civil, aerospace, automotive...). Pianist. Instrumental music enjoyer. Circumstances permitting, I draw and I write.
Can communicate in: Polski/English/Español/Deutsch. Learning: Arabic and French.
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I understand ********* on a fundamental level, except I don't have the saving grace of reliably projecting face-saving sang-froid.
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Hey so, remember when I posted about Israel being behind the forest fires in Argentina earlier this year?
Remember how I posted about Chilean and Argentinian authorities in Patagonia arresting IDF soldiers who were masking as tourists to start said fires?
Remember when I said that, just a few months before that, Milei had abolished wildlife protection laws and defunded firefighting forces all over the country because this was clearly a coordinated move to burn down Patagonia and sell the land to Israel?
Remember how people called me a nazi antisemite for saying this and called it a conspiracy theory despite all the proof for everyone to see? Despite the testimonies from people who live there who have been denouncing the abuses of these Israeli "tourists" for years? Despite Netanyahu parading around with maps of Patagonia in his meetings?
I was right. We were right and it's too late to do anything now because Milei just announced they're gonna be taking in hundreds of thousands of Israelis. We're being invaded by zionists.
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Coffee is the second most valuable primary commodity in the world, only below oil. The industry generates 60 billion dollars annually, but of that, only 10% ends up in the hands of the peasants who grow the coffee. Also in the cocoa market, producers in Ivory Coast and Ghana, who supply nearly half of world output, habitually obtain less than 10% and even less than 5% of the final sale price. In fact, while the proportion of total income received by producers has been declining for decades, the European countries that re-export this same cocoa enjoy, by contrast, growing profits: between 1965 and 1989, African producers earned 34% less per kilogram exported than European re-exporters; between 2000 and 2010, this gap had already grown to 76%. Likewise, between the 1970s and the 2000s, the markup on African coffee re-exported from Europe rises from 50% to 300%, allowing European firms to re-export each kilo of coffee with an average markup of 4.11 dollars over its import price. According to a report issued by the International Coffee Organization (ICO), this commodity contributed, in 2009, some 31 billion dollars to the economy of the nine principal importers, a figure that doubles the total export earnings obtained by the 40 producing countries registered with the ICO.
This disparity affects not only primary commodities, but also the industrial exports of dependent countries. The 30GB iPod Video, launched by Apple in 2005, constitutes a classic example. The final sale price of this iPod model reaches 299 dollars. A large part of the value added, around 140 dollars, is captured by producers of parts and components, among which Japan, the United States and South Korea stand out. Distribution and retail sectors in the United States add another 75 dollars, while Apple captures a gross margin of 80 dollars per unit. By contrast, the share of value captured by China, where the assembly of components takes place through the exploitation of tens of thousands of workers, amounts to only about 4 dollars of the final sale price. Studies on the value chain of the iPhone 4, launched in 2010, offer the same results. South Korea produces around 50% of the components; American, German and French firms produce the rest of the parts. Despite China's manufacturing contribution, assembly costs, around 6.54 dollars, represent about 1% of the final sale price and less than 3.5% of the factory price. Apple, for its part, captures a margin of 270 dollars per unit. The same holds in the Nokia N95 chain, where assembly represents only 2% of the retail price. These cases confirm that the country of final assembly captures a small portion of the commercial value of the product, while component manufacturing, distribution and the lead firm, Apple or Nokia, concentrate the greatest part of the value added along the chain.
Tony Norfield breaks down the price of a T-shirt manufactured in Bangladesh and sold in Germany by the Swedish chain H&M at a retail price of 4.95 euros. H&M pays the Bangladeshi manufacturer 1.35 euros per T-shirt. Of this amount, 40 cents cover the cost of the 400 grams of cotton imported from the United States. Transport to Hamburg adds another 6 cents, giving a total import price of 1.41 euros. Once in Germany, transport, premises rental and spending on sales, marketing and administrative staff add around 2 euros more. H&M captures a net profit of 60 cents per T-shirt, the German state collects 79 cents through a 19% VAT, and the remaining 16 cents cover "other items". This distribution means that only 95 cents of the final sale price remain in Bangladesh, to be shared among the factory owner, suppliers of inputs and services, the Bangladeshi state and the workers, who receive around 2 or 3 cents per T-shirt, while the remaining 3.54 euros are counted as part of Germany's GDP.
According to sources cited by John Smith, the total margin over the production cost of a fast fashion T-shirt reaches 152%. More expensive products offer even higher margins. Replica football shirts, for example, constitute a major source of income. 80% of those sold in the United Kingdom are manufactured in East Asia for about 5 pounds. The manufacturer ships them to sportswear companies with a profit margin of around 50%; these companies add another 100% and sell them to retailers for 14 pounds. Retailers add their own margin, of at least 150%, to raise the price to the recommended retail price of 35 pounds, an increase of 700% over the factory price. Other analyses estimate that a KP MacLane polo shirt manufactured in Bangladesh, retailed in the United States for 175 dollars, generates a margin of 718% over its production cost, and that a Hermès polo shirt, sold for 455 dollars, offers a profit margin exceeding 1800%.
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Man who was a Blackwater Mercenary, 3 times Iraq veteran, who served as a guard at Abu Ghraib, one time Afghanistan veteran, who said he loved it, and got a Nazi tattoo to celebrate it, and was accused a couple months ago of sexual assault and abuse - which the Yankee left were cool with and defended - is also a rapist
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I'm doing it, I'm posting the first chapter of T/F today.
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That "Thank you, oh wise man" interaction is costing me sleep
and like, if individual pieces of art aren't materially impactful on the world, is capital a Art capital I Important in some big metaphyiscal way? i don't really think so either honestly. i mean i love art and creating art and thinking about art. that's like half of what this blog is about, the fact that i need somewhere to put all my thoughts about works of art. art is hugely important to me and has shaped my life. but ultimately art is just a particular set of social and intellectual activities, and many people live perfectly happy and fufilling lives without ever particularly thinking about it. i think "art is a deep metaphysical need of the soul", "art is what makes us human" etc is just more artist self-flattery
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Please don't ignore my sister's tears and help me provide her with medicine before it's too late.
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Being small Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace
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Lauesen’s book is really well paced. Now that it’s in Part 3 it’s going rapid fire on all types of lessons for the Communist movement based on the history of past/current revolutions and socialist experiments. I can see why it may read a little redundant for some since he’s sort of retreading old ground from Part 2 (which is narrative focused since it’s the history of revolutions), but I think overall he clarifies some points that he didn’t get to in Part 2 of the book. Like talking about non-antagonistic contradictions being turned into antagonistic ones during the Cultural Revolution. The need to walk on two legs (balancing the voluntarist political line versus the material incentive political line) Elaborating a little more about the role of nationalism in previous transitional-states’ conflicts with one another (like the Sino-Soviet split or the Soviet-Yugoslav split).
Something I’ve noticed also is that the writing style in this book is really really good.. There’s something about his syntax and word choice that just make the actual process of reading feel satisfying. I think it works better here than in his other recent book Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future… the problem in that other book is that he cites Emmanuel directly so many times that it becomes distracting. But here that isn’t an issue. The flow is never interrupted by excessive long direct quotes.
Anyway not done with the The Long Transition Towards Socialism And The End Of Capitalism just yet. But at this point I think I can feel confident saying that this book should be mandatory reading.
(Link to the two books mentioned above! Digital versions of books from Iskra are always free for download without even a login)
