The Political Economy of Superman

Full text of the video can be read at:

http://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/the-political-economy-of-superman/

Den politiska ekonomin i "Stålmannen

Swedish subtitles by Nairu.
English subs by Brendanmcooney.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• machine
• versus
• man
• wage
• labor
• emasculation
• motherland
• fascism
• reactionary
• private
• property
• falling
• rate
• of
• profit
• capital
• Den
• politiska
• ekonomin
• Stålmannen
• maskinerna
• fascismens
• värde
• arbetskraft

[TheNomadicMonad]

Oh ok, I'm sorry in that case :)

[DonJack1776]

Would you say that John Connor is a Super Luddite as well? "The Political Economy Of Terminator" perhaps?

[bapyou]

@1KMPLX "When we buy a widget, we're not buying the labor. We're buying the widget & all the subjective value WE put into that widget."

When buying a widget, you're paying its exchange value; you aren't investing anything in the widget. A car part composed of rubber, steel & copper is raw materials, until labor gives them value by transformation.

And corporations are not at the "beck & call" of the consumer. Corporations are production process monopolies which most of us are bound to patronize.

[thegreattravo]

^_^ Superman is an ILLEGAL ALIEN! Stealing our newspaper jobs... scarce as they are! Conquering our women... indomitable as they are! Superman is an ILLEGAL ALIEN! ...Speaking our language, but using our sun for his own gain! Fighting for our safety, but invading our privacy! Superman is an ILLEGAL ALIEN! How is it trouble always finds you? How do your exploits impact our foreign policy? What are you connections to local firms that rebuild that which you destroy?

[Ryukikon]

There are some good general points which I have been talking about for years now, which I dubb supermanism. I am put of at the Freudian Economics that you present in this video. Very good video, I think you are in the ball park but not in the game on the ideas.

[1KMPLX]

When we buy a widget, we're not buying the labor. We're buying the widget and all the subjective value WE put into that widget. End of story. The "big evil corporation" is at the beck and call of the true master, the consumer. It's the ultimate form of democracy. Central planning by some all wise government overlord can't account for that. That is the main reason communism can't help but fail. Pol Pot tried to run a cashless society. Look how well it worked out for him.

[1KMPLX]

CajunCommie: Also, it's historical fact that the USSR actually had to send spies here to America to find out what they should charge for goods internally. That is a systemic admission of failure. Without capitalism to leach off of (even on the most basic level) communism fails. It has no REAL way of understanding the price structure. Things are worth whatever people are willing to spend on them and sell them for. That's it. Subjective pricing.

[1KMPLX]

CajunCommie: you're the Satist not me. I'm on the complete other end of the spectrum.

[CajunCommie]

@1KMPLX were you grown in some kind of government troll vat

[1KMPLX]

the thing that gives value to something is not the cost of labor. Human labor is not what gives something value. Put another way, value is purely subjective. there is no objective value for objects or labor. It is purely what each individual involved in the transaction chooses it to be. Marx never understood that and that's why socialism (of every sort - including fascism) and communism fail.

[xasia1000]

to the commentor- do you belive the things you say? I could understand if you do it as an experiment or exercice.

[mrnugget1234]

Alright guys just found the greatest thing to do. First get really high. Second put some tech-no music on and watch as superman destroys ROBOTS!!!