sure, it depends on what your goals are. if i recall correctly, the book even has a section on fictitious capital that’s formatted as 5 paragraphs with an introductory paragraph and conclusion paragraph and 3 paragraphs in the middle of restating a few definitions of fictitious capital and how marxist investors need to take this in to account when making investment decisions.

i don’t. the gist of the book – and i’ll emphasize again that “gist” is all there is because it’s ai generated drivel – is that if you consider the material basis of the value of companies when making investment decisions, you’ll probably come out ahead against people who are swayed by the empty promises of vaporware. start by reading actual theory, even something short like wages, price, and profit and just apply that to whether you think a company will be worth investing in, and it’ll be a better use of your time.

i have a friend with a kindle unlimited that i borrowed and read this a couple months ago when someone else posted about it.

it is 100% ai generated drivel. don’t waste your money.

Lyrically, it is a tribute to Hill’s oldest son Zion David Marley, to whom she gave birth in 1997, during her relationship with Rohan Marley.

i guess the question is why they chose to name their child zion, but the zion metaphor in rastafarianism in my limited understanding is an aspirational one of seeking a homeland after a forced exile, whereas israeli zionism is a settler-colonial philosophy similar to american manifest destiny or german lebensraum.

thanks for sharing your thoughts, mark

Maybe it’s because he’s nobility?

i think this is probably a lot of it. his class interest and lack of theory are what made him useful to the cia to exploit against the soviets.

one of the events osama bin laden cited in particular in his declaration of war against the americans occupying the land of the two holy places was the qana massacre, when an iof artillery attack killed over 100 lebanese civilian refugees who were seeking shelter at a u.n. compound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qana_massacre

because time is a flat circle

iraqi krugerrands

how do i summon more jd vance disco elysium posting? i feel like there’s a lot to explore here.

i tried the same thing last week and that perfidious @SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net prolonged the news megathread out of personal spite. i wish you more luck than i had!

the bourgeoisie would best treat their anxiety by abdicating their class position and returning ownership of the means of production to the workers in solidarity and mutual prosperity. my brother wouldn’t be so mean if it weren’t for his slavish pursuit of extracting profits from his workers. o’brien’s prank is ultimately for quark’s own benefit.

the rent is too damned high!

i’m not sure what to do in this situation

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Israel, is in fact, USA/Israel, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, USA plus Israel. Israel is not an imperialist system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning USA system made useful by the USA corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full imperialist system as defined by Lenin. Many NATO countries run a modified version of the USA system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of USA which is widely used today is often called “Israel,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the USA system, developed by the USA Project. There really is an Israel, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

i agree with the point you’re making, but the illiad ends before achilles’ death. the next chapter is hector’s dad sneaking through the enemy siege camp to recover his son’s body, pleading with achilles, who agrees, fulfilling his redemption arc from rebelling against his own king’s commands, suffering the consequences of that in the form of his lover’s death and funeral, his desecration of hector’s body, and finally acquiescing to king priam’s request, which is specifically being made not as a king, but as someone appealing only to achilles’ sense of universal humanity. the illiad ends with hector’s funeral because that is the most important point being made in the story, not divine punishment.

dutch tulip mania?

the movies are revisionist

to be determined

it passed within 621,000 miles of earth

contemplating the vast expanse of the cosmos leaves me both humbled and filled with awe

it passed within 5 and a half million stadiums of earth

holy shit! that was a close call!

how do you know that bartender with a peculiar beard isn’t abraham lincoln