The cancer infecting the political Left

[Bob Butler 54]

(07-29-2020, 05:11 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(07-28-2020, 10:33 PM)Einzige Wrote: See the Grundrisse. Marx foresaw the Information Age and was aware how it would alter the structure of capitalist production. It has not fundamentally transformed its method of surplus value extraction, however.

Can "surplus value extraction" be transformed, and into what? Can it ever be ended?

One way would be to cut way back on how our current culture treats consumption as happiness.  You make things that absorb critical resources less important.

I think by sticking the weasel word 'surplus' in there, you might cause resource greed to be 'ended', but you ask a good question.

A very green attitude if you can correctly unpack the excess verbiage.

Back in the day I took a Mentor aircraft up and played laser tag with another Mentor.  Very entertaining.  Perhaps the ultimate sport.  As the Mentor was designed as a trainer for pre fighter pilots, it was a hot little thing.  Rather resource intensive, however.  Burned lots of fuel.  Was not easy on the plane.  A little later a Mentor had a wing fall off.  Aircraft dogfighting would be right out in a 'minimize surplus value extraction' culture.