Marxian

Thoughts in verse on the August London riots.

Glaziers came to reinsert the glass,
Between the goods produced and the producer class

Capital has had to come right back to where value originates in the first place. If anyone was in any doubt about where profit and the value that appears as money originates from, or if anyone once thought even that banks somehow magically created value, then the scales now should have fallen from their eyes.

Even in the impure, concrete capitalism of today, the differentials between workers are being worn down.

Now we eat the same food and wear the same clothes, resulting in the homogeneity of the inner as well as the outer man.

Deskilling, paradoxically, broadens opportunity. In the capacity paradox is to be found the potential for the future all-round development of all men and women.

For individuals to spend all available time in paid labour and then to die having accumulated nothing is not only the epitome of capitalist efficiency, but is also proof positive of the labour theory of value.

People need full and conscious knowledge of the capacity for achievement that is latent within a real and actual social reality before they can posit that capacity and realise it as a goal.

Social obligation to be reduced, in the non-economic sphere, to an insignificant residue that harks back in folk memory to a bygone age of social servitude.