Also, Marx’ distinction of productive and unproductive labour isn’t a moral one, but rather a strictly material one. Marx distinguishes between productive and unproductive labour strictly along the lines of whether the product of said labour turns a profit for a capitalist. Thus, the exact same labour process with the exact same resulting product can be both productive or unproductive, its categorisation is entirely determined by whether the product is a commodity or simply remains a good.

In your example, the barista making your coffee would be productive labour, whereas you making the coffee yourself would be classified as unproductive.

The Wall Street Journal, truly the last bastion of Marxist understanding. What the fuck am I looking at?

No one in Africa wants them, you may fly the plane past Pine Gap, though, Australia being your former penal colony and all.

Just the Higgs boson, which is exactly what the LHC was originally built for. But other than the intended results, it’s been basically useless!

Capitalism no iPhone

My guy, have you heard phrases like “100 Mrd. € Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr”, “Wiedereinführung der Wehrpflicht” , shit like this? Or have you heard anything people like Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann have said in the past two years? Also, hasn’t the Russian army been struggling to overpower Ukraine for the past two years now? The poorest country in Europe with basically no functioning infrastructure to begin with that also is decidedly not a member of NATO? Wouldn’t the Russian Army have to cross the Baltic states and Poland to even reach Germany, triggering a response from all of NATO? Could it be they all the rhetoric about the Russkys expanding westwards is full of shit and nothing more but a fig leaf to sell austerity and a military buildup to the German populace?

The dems have finally learned that being the lesser evil is not a great motivating factor in elections. They have thusly decided that being the greater evil is the way forward!

Might just be me knot knowing Germany very well, but where do you live that people around you don’t speak English well? In any city I have ever lived in (which is only three, tbf), most people were at least conversational and international friends of mine actually complained about not being able to practise their German because everyone would always speak English with them.

Higher ups of the army literally protested the reintroduction of conscription because the army lacks the infrastructure and personnel to train such a high number of new recruits. But Material reality never stopped the German government from passing asinine legislation.

Probably buried right next to Iraqi WMDs.

“You stop killing people now, ok?”, I said to the active shooter after handing them an AK-47 and 2000 rounds of munition, as well as hand grenades.

For most Germans never again means “you get a freebie because we did it to you”.

I don’t think the DPRK wants to give an opportunity to basically any country in the world to plant spies. Considering the US used visits of the Atomic Energy Commission to infiltrate the DPRK in the 90s, welcoming thousands and thousands of difficult to vet corporate reps sounds like an open invitation for infiltration.

It’s not a pissing contest, but I still believe Nazi Germany takes the cake in that regard.

But… but… Galicia was judenfrei when he joined, he couldn’t have been a Nazi!

Just a small correction: a vassal is a person subservient to a feudal lord. A vessel is a container of some sort or a ship.

Are you rooting for the AfD to come to power? As a Central Asian living in Germany, the rise of a literal Nazi party fucking frightens me and should frighten anyone.

Portugal and Ireland seem somewhat ok.

I mean, Russia at least has imperial ambitions, which they currently attempt to realise. But China (at least to my knowledge) does not extract resources from any periphery without mutually agreed upon compensation (not the IMF way) which makes its actions mostly mutually beneficial. That kind of defeats the purpose of an empire.