I really recommend reading Capital, the theory comm has a book club on it and it’s super helpful.

it’s looking like I really should, not only to understand the world but also to understand the Marxist perspective on it more deeply, since I call myself one

and by increasing the degree of exploitation of labor- longer days, more intense work, etc. as well as lowering wages, but that can only go so far

makes me wonder what will happen when the repression of the global south begins to crack