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Marx's Inconvenient Truth for Marxism and the Left
In 2003, Michael Lebowitz asked an interesting question: What Keeps Capitalism Going? What explains the persistence of an exploitative relationship in which the working class must sell their labor power to the capitalists who own the means of production. This latter group — the capitalists — have no concern for the workers, Lebowitz explains; they have only two interests in the outcome of this exchange: profits and more profits. The purchase of the worker's labor power allows the capitalist to direct the workers in the act of production for the purpose of producing more capital; and this new capital goes back into the process of producing even more capital. According to Lebowitz this was what Marx was trying to tell us in books like Capital:
This was the central message that Marx was attempting to communicate to workers. What is capital? It is the workers' own product which has been turned against them, a product in the form of tools, machinery—indeed, all the products of human activity (mental and manual).
When I read this passage, I wondered why Lebowitz considers the capitalist exploitation of the worker to be the central message Marx wanted to communicate to the working class? In the 19th Century almost everyone knew labor was the source of the wealth capital produced — even bourgeois economists admitted it. The capitalist and worker engaged in constant conflict over both the division of the working day and, more importantly, over its length. Is Lebowitz suggesting working people are now too dense to understand how their companies make money? But I thought, okay, so let's see where he is taking us with this revelation.
Before turning to the question posed in the title of his post, Lebowitz addresses another, slightly off-topic, question: "How do capitalists increase their capital by increasing the exploitation of workers?" Lebowitz argues this is accomplished by several means: 1. They have to get more work out of the workers in the same period of time; 2. they have to get more total labor time from the workers; 3. they have to pay them less in wages; and 4. they have to deny them access to science and knowledge. Capital is constantly trying to expand the total social workday and increase its intensity, while keeping down wages and denying the working class access to the fruits of its social labor. How does capital accomplish these four goals? Lebowitz tells us,
In particular, it does so by separating workers, by turning them against each other.
Okay, I thought, Lebowitz better have a more robust answer than this simple-minded bullshit. He is making what could be called the "Pimp Theory" of capitalism. This theory proposes the poor sex worker is somehow compelled by the pimp to prostitute herself against her own better judgement. The sex worker would never get it into her own head to sell herself; it is the pimp's threats, violence, or charm that lead her astray. Likewise, Lebowitz wants us to believe the worker would never voluntarily sell herself into wage slavery if she knew the capitalist gets richer by this act; she must be tricked or cajoled into it.
Personally, I have in my family history, sharecroppers who looked on wage slavery as the promised land. I am pretty sure no one in my family had to be dragged kicking and screaming from Alabama to their new job at General Motors. And I am pretty damned sure no one has to put a gun to the head of a Mexican citizen to make her cross the border in search of a job. Millions of immigrants streamed across the Atlantic and Pacific to find work in the United States; and millions more still move from one country to the next trying to sell themselves into wage slavery today. But this idea the worker would never sell herself if she knew she was being exploited is just the sort of silly shit that continues to get traction among Marxists and the rest of the "Left". There just has to be some hidden tricked employed by the capitalist to explain wage slavery, right? Lebowitz continues in this vein of stupidity:
The logic of capital has nothing to do with the needs of human beings. So practices such as the use of racism and patriarchy to divide workers, the use of the state to outlaw or crush trade unions, the destruction of people's lives by shutting down operations and moving to parts of the world where people are poor, unions banned, and environmental regulations nonexistent—are not accidental but the product of a society in which human beings are simply means for capital.
So the capitalist employs racism, patriarchy. state laws, capital export, etc., to pursue its ends — ends for which the worker is mere means. Satisfied with this explanation, Lebowitz dismisses further discussion with a wave of his hand:
We could go on about the character of capitalism, but I think the point is clear.
I am sorry, but Lebowitz's point is not clear to me at all. Where is the constant improvement of machinery, plant and equipment that multiplies the productive power of labor in this explanation? Where are the scientific breakthroughs, and applications of digital and other technologies to reduce the quantity of labor necessary to create a commodity? Where is the improvement in the general cultural level of society? Where, in short, are all of the efforts that goes into reducing the actual socially necessary labor time required for the production of labor power, not just reducing the workers wages? Is capitalism just pure political manipulation and off-shoring?
But, Lebowitz is not actually trying to explain how the capitalist increases the extraction of surplus value. As we shall see, he is just covering his ass politically for the ugly and inconvenient truths that come next. This requires he say something about racism and patriarchy which have nothing to do with the capitalist relation itself. But, for now, Lebowitz is the tour guide and we must stay on the bus until we get back to the hotel.
So, back to the topic—how is it that this continues? What keeps capitalism going? How is such a system reproduced?
First, in Marx's theory, it turns out it is not at all clear to the worker she is being exploited after all, or, at least, this exploitation is not a deal breaker when it comes time to sell her labor power. Indeed, she might be exploited, but this comes with the job description so to speak — she gets so much of the product of her labor, her boss gets the rest. If she doesn't like the terms of the trade it's her fault — either she didn't make sure that her labor power was of a quality demanded in the market place, or she decided to major in Elizabethan literature, or she decided she really didn't need a union after all, or she voted for Scott Walker, because, clearly, Obama is a Marxist. Whatever the reason, according to Lebowitz:
On the face of it, in short, there is no exploitation. Marx was very clear on this point—the very way that wages are expressed as a wage for a given number of hours extinguishes every trace of exploitation—"all labour appears as paid labour." This disappearance of exploitation on the surface, he noted, underlies "all the notions of justice held by both the worker and the capitalist, all the mystifications of the capitalist mode of production". Note that it is not only the capitalist who will tend to think there is no exploitation; it is also the worker. If that's the case, when workers struggle, they are struggling not against exploitation but against unjust wages or working conditions—they are struggling for a better wage or shorter day, for what they see as fairness: a "fair day's work for a fair day's pay.
In other words, in Marx's theory, the wage relationship is produces an entire ideological structure wherein BOTH worker and capitalist agree there is no exploitation. If this is, in fact, true, what was all that bullshit Lebowitz said earlier about "the use of racism and patriarchy to divide workers"? Why would there be any reason to divide workers, when, as a class, they have no trouble with the existing state of society and are only concerned to be the lucky bastard who is successful in selling his labor power? Even when the workers struggle against the capitalist, "they do not see themselves as challenging the system, only some of its unfair results."
Second, in Marx's theory, it turns out that the worker does not see the accumulation of capital as the result of her activity, her exploitation. The wealth appears to come, not from her labor, but from the machinery and technical conditions of labor, personified in the capitalist. The results of the worker's own labor appears to be the result of the activities of the capitalist:
The more the system develops, the more that production relies upon fixed capital, on the results of past labor which take the form of capital—the more that capital (and the capitalist) appear to be necessary to workers. It is no accident, in short, that workers would see themselves as dependent upon capital.
Since exploitation is hidden and increasingly mystified there is a strong bias to reproduction of capitalism itself — it increasingly is seen as the natural mode of life of society, not an imposition on society. Capital becomes, not just some alien thing standing outside of us, but the material precondition for the ways we make our lives.
Third it turns out that not only does it appear to the worker that she is dependent on capital for her existence, she actually is dependent on capital for her existence. According to Lebowitz:
… society does not only appear to be dependent upon capital and the capitalist for all advances. As individuals within capitalist relations, workers really are dependent on capital to meet their needs. As long as they are separated from the means of work and need to sell their ability to work in order to get the money to buy the things they need, workers need the capitalist, who is the mediator between them and the realization of their needs. For the wage-laborer, the real tragedy is not the sale of her labor-power; it is the inability to sell it. What can be worse for one who must sell a commodity than to find no buyer? Workers, it appears, have an interest in the health of capitalists, have an interest in expanding demand on the part of capitalists for their labor-power—by education, tradition, and habit, they come to look upon the needs of capital as self-evident natural laws, as common sense. The reproduction of workers as wage-laborers requires the reproduction of capital.
The upshot of these three points is that, over time, the workers are increasing materially dependent on capital for their survival; they become increasingly aware of this dependence, and this dependence increasingly appears as a natural attribute of their existence. Capital produces a class of laborer who are completely at home within its relations of production. Lebowitz quotes Marx, who writes that the capitalist can "rely on his [the worker's] dependence on capital, which springs from the conditions of production themselves, and is guaranteed in perpetuity by them"
It would be an understatement to say this argument by Marx seems quite pessimistic for the Marxist project — Marx, whose name is irreversibly linked to communism, seems to be making a convincing argument for why communism is impossible. This argument suggests capitalism naturally reproduces the conditions for its own existence — and Lebowitz is more than a little uncomfortable and defensive about the conclusions that must necessarily follow. He tries to head off the accusation that capitalism "delivers the goods." In order to extricate himself from Marx's uncomfortable truths about the reality of capitalist relations of production, Lebowitz employs the Marxist get out of jail free card: Somehow capitalist crises will trigger a change in working class consciousness and bring it to an awareness of the need to get rid of capitalism:
Well, you might say that I'm presenting a rather distorted picture of capitalism. That I'm making it seem as if capitalism is a system without contradictions, a stable economic system that delivers the goods. What about economic crises? Doesn't capitalism inevitably come up against crises, crises inherent in its nature? Some people predict the collapse of the system once a week. I don't think too much of arguments that suggest that the permanent crisis of capitalism began in the hour of its birth. But, the system does have crises—periods in which profits fall, production drops, people are unemployed. Don't those crises demonstrate that a new system is necessary?
Without question, an economic crisis brings the nature of the economic system to the surface. When there are unemployed people, resources, machinery, and factories—and at the very same time people with the need for those things that could be produced—it is pretty obvious that production in capitalism is not based on human needs but, rather, only on what can be produced for a profit. This is a time when people can be mobilized to question the system.
Tell that dumb shit to the victims of Auschwitz, because I am not buying it myself. Really, you fucking Marxists have to stop banking on crises to trigger your non-existent class conscious worker — it ain't happening. And Lebowitz also knows it ain't happening; so he tags on this caveat:
However, so long as people continue to think capital is necessary, then the solutions they look for will not be ones which challenge the logic of capital. (The same will be true in the case of the environmental crises that capitalism produces.) So long as they see capital as the source of jobs, the source of wealth, the source of all progress, then their answer will be that they don't want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Bravo! Well fucking stated. Those words should be tattooed on the eyelids of every fucking Marxist, so they can memorize them in their sleep — the material dependence of the working class on the existing structure of production cannot be overcome by a well written tract exposing capital as a system of exploitation. (Which, of course, implies Marx never intended that Capital would serve merely as such an expose'.)
So, we return to our question—what keeps capitalism going? How is capitalism reproduced as a system? I think you can see the answer that I am offering: capital tends to produce the working class it needs. It produces workers who look upon it as necessary—a system that is unfair, one that requires you to struggle constantly to realize your needs, a system run by people out to get you, yet a system where the reproduction of capital is necessary for the reproduction of wage-laborers. What keeps capitalism going? Wage-laborers. The reproduction of workers as wage-laborers is necessary for the reproduction of capital.
The proletarian is not just the premise of capital, it is its special product and condition for its continued functioning. Lebowitz concludes that capital can live without racism, without patriarchy, without national and ethnic divisions but it cannot live without wage slaves. However, despite all he has written thus far, Lebowitz interprets this to mean the working class must somehow acquire a class consciousness of its situation:
What capital cannot live with, however, is a working class that both understands that capital is the result of exploitation … and is also prepared to struggle to put an end to that exploitation
Bizarrely, despite all he has said in the preceding words, Lebowitz is still banking on the sudden appearance of a working class capable of overcoming the mystification and material dependence embedded in its own existence. How might such a class make its appearance? Well, the traditional answer has been the vanguard party, but we all know how that turned out. Moreover, as Lebowitz argues, even if such a party emerged, it would essentially be delivering "messages from the outside … a scenario for inevitable irrelevance and isolation." Which is to say, the message this party delivered to the working class would be in sharp contradiction to the class's own empirical circumstances.
Just imagine trying to convince your co-worker that she is being exploited by a relation she finds absolutely necessary for her own existence — her job. It ain't gonna happen and even is you do manage to put it into her head, she still need the damn job. I would rather spend my days trying to convince a born-again christian that Christ doesn't exist, never existed and the bible is a just a collection of myth stories; while the christian is on his knees praying to Jesus to save the life of his only child.
So Lebowitz proposes what he thinks is a possibly more productive variation of the Marxist approach:
Let me propose, however, that the picture is not necessarily as bleak as it seems. Workers are not simply the products of capital. They are formed (and form themselves) through all the relationships in which they exist. And, they transform themselves through their struggles—not only those against capital but also against those other relations like patriarchy and racism. Even though these struggles may take place fully within the confines of capitalist relations, in the course of engaging in collective struggles people develop a new sense of themselves. They develop new capacities, new understandings of the importance of collective struggle. People who produce themselves as revolutionary subjects through their struggles enter into their relations with capital as different people; in contrast to those who are not in motion, they are open to developing an understanding of the nature of capital.
Can I just say at this point, Lebowitz has no fucking idea what he is talking about; he is just mindlessly regurgitating "Leftist" gibberish that is so moldy it has grown hair and legs. When he argues that in the course of struggle, we "develop new capacities, new understandings of the importance of collective struggle," he is just making a leap of faith typical of generations of starry-eyed young communists who just had their first study session on the Communist Manifesto. A few months ago I read the lamentations of a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, who, reflecting on 40 years of experience as a communist activist, confessed that years of struggle in the coalfields produced exactly one recruit.
In our ten year project in the U.S. coalfields (in the 1970s) — we only recruited one person who was a native coalminer (while we worked closely with dozens, even hundreds of men and women over the years). He was unusual in that he had left the coal fields and worked with the farmworkers union in California etc. — and so had become opened to a large world of ideas and organizing outside the immediate world of the coalfields. But years later I went back to West Virginia, and met with him (and many other people) on a trip — and he said to me, "I wanted socialism and I wanted to wage the class struggle — but really 80% of what the party was talking to just went by me. I had no idea what all that was about, or why it mattered."
I have no idea whether this story is true or not, but this implies a very low retention rate. How many in the Occupy movement will actually acquire a communist consciousness necessary for the overcoming of capitalism? Even these struggles, Lebowitz argues, only open people to understanding the nature of capitalism — they do not as a rule carry the consciousness of the individual worker beyond it. Lebowitz thus is forced to come up with a solution to this problem:
For those within the grasp of capital, however, more is necessary than simply to understand the nature of capital and its roots in exploitation. People need to believe that a better world is possible. They need to feel that there is an alternative—one worth struggling for. In this respect, describing the nature of a socialist alternative—and analyzing the inadequacies and failures of 20th century efforts—is an essential part of the process by which people can be moved to put an end to capitalism.
Really? This is his solution? Does Lebowitz really believe people will be convinced by a description of "the nature of a socialist alternative—and analyzing the inadequacies and failures of 20th century efforts"? Does Lebowitz really think the social revolution is a matter of education and self-criticism? I can say I am not impressed by a proposal that suggests all the material and ideological advantages of capitalism — not to mention all of its political and economic advantages — can be overcome by educational efforts and self-criticism of a tiny stratum of revolutionaries.
I don't know, call me skeptical.
I have an alternative proposal, one the takes all those material, ideological, political and economic advantages of capitalism into account. It begins with the premise that people never come to see capitalism as a system to be overthrown, but overthrow it anyway precisely because they are completely dependent on social labor and cannot survive without it. The problem with the existing strategy of the "Left" is that it presupposes the mass of workers would reject capitalism if only we could somehow clearly and graphically communicate its nature as a political-economy to at least the most advanced members of the class. There is, in fact, nothing in the historical record to suggest this is true. Nor is there, at least in Marx's theory, a theoretical argument for this nonsense.
From the beginning of his writings, starting at least with the German Ideology, Marx assumed the working class had no beef with capitalism. The entire structure of his theory is founded on the idea — stated as what appears to be an a priori deduction — that the working class as a class — and unlike all other classes in society — has no conflict with the capitalist class as a ruling class. This is already given in his assertion — held his entire life — that this class is the product of the capitalist mode of production and does not have to fight for its existence as a class against the ruling classes.
What both Lebowitz and the working class take as the accumulation of dead labor is actually the necessary and constant expansion of the working class itself as the product of the development of the capitalist mode of production, or the expansion of social labor as the basis for human society. And in this process capital is only as a transitional mode of production, as the continuous and necessary expansion of the conditions of social labor.
As Lebowitz argues, "Fixed capital, machinery, technology, science—all necessarily appear only as capital." But there is that goddamn word again, "appear" — it should be an immediate cause for every Marxist to say, "Aha! It necessarily appears as capital!" Marx never use the word appears unless he is telegraphing that this appearance is misleading. This, at least, is my conclusion. I could be wrong about this, but I can't find a place where he is using it in any other sense.
So when Marx states,
The accumulation of knowledge and of skill, of the general productive forces of the social brain, is thus absorbed into capital, as opposed to labour, and hence appears as an attribute of capital
He is stating this appearance is completely misleading — these are attributes of the working class alone, i.e., attributes of the social producer who is completely at home in social production. It is not just that labor is the source of them all, these become more or less functions taken over by the class itself. Marxists think they have made some great discovery when they finally get it through their heads labor is the source of wealth — thus Lebowitz announces with almost childlike enthusiasm,
What is capital? It is the workers' own product which has been turned against them, a product in the form of tools, machinery—indeed, all the products of human activity (mental and manual).
He states this as if it was some recent discovery confirmed by the empirical data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was NOT "the central message that Marx was attempting to communicate to workers." Marx did not care one whit about the dead labor tied up in machinery, plant and equipment. He was explaining how capitalism was creating a class of individuals completely at home within directly social labor. Marx was making an argument that the capitalist class was the obstacle to the most rapid development of both social labor and the social laborer, and an obstacle to the rapid improvement in the productivity of labor that puts an end to the material necessity for labor and the division of labor. The working class was, by contrast, the true inheritors of what capitalism produced. To put it another way, if capitalism is a transitional mode of production, it is in transition to a form where the working class undertakes its own reproduction directly as a single global act of production and has assumed all the functions bound up with this act with the aim of ending necessary labor once and for all.
The question is not how the "Left" can move the working class "to put an end to" this process — that, based on Lebowitz's own examination of Marx's assumptions, is a pipe-dream of 20th Century Marxism and the rest of the silly "left". The question is how the working class can accelerate this transitional stage of history and complete it quickly and without all the agonies of the capitalist mode of production.
In Greece, for instance, we are confronted with a situation where capital is being compelled to kill the nation state, and the "left" is heroically (and stupidly) trying to save it from oblivion. The question is not whether the Greece state goes — this is already prefigured in the mode of production itself — but what is to replace it? It was dead the moment it adopted the euro; and it was dead even if it never adopted the euro. The perfection of the world market must put an end to nation states, and we should be trying to accelerate this process.
In 1848, when Marx wrote the Communist manifesto he put forth a program which declared the aims of communists if the working class took power. The interesting thing about that 10 point program is that it sought, in his words, to "increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible." Even the expropriation of the propertied classes was not seen as an end in itself, but undertaken as "means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production." Marx clearly was not at all preoccupied with ending capitalist rule as some aim in itself, but with doing exactly what capital was already doing more rapidly and without the catastrophes and agonies of capitalist development. Far from imagining lifeless capital as something that would be "ended", these productive forces, on which the worker depended for her very existence, were to be appropriated by the workers and even more rapidly developed.
Yes, capitalism cannot survive without wage slaves, but the social producer can survive without capital — this is the vulnerability inherent in the mode of production. It was the capitalist and capitalist relations of production that stood in the way of the most rapid development of social labor. In Marx's argument, the social revolution was bound up with the historical movement already underway; it was not at all primarily a "process by which people can be moved to put an end to capitalism." Yes. The capitalist has to go, but this is not the point — they are after all just a tiny handful of thugs and parasites. The real point is that the transition toward the abolition of labor had to be completed as rapidly as possible. The point of the working class seizing power was to put an end to itself as a working class — and not in some Hegelian sense, but really and materially by putting an end to the need for labor!
This is what appears nowhere in Lebowitz's paper, nor in the program of Syriza in Greece or any other faction of the so-called Left. The question is not how the working class can put an end to capitalism, but how it can do everything capitalism is doing without capitalism. And frankly that isn't very difficult, considering the capitalist does nothing anymore beyond speculating in the financial markets. All of the actual functions of the capitalist have been assumed by the fascist state and it supporting managerial stratum; and most of these functions can be reduced to one simple imperative: continuous expansion of the total labor time of society.
The point is not to "put an end to capitalism" — whatever that nonsense phrase even means — but to free directly social labor from the fetters and agonies of capitalist relations of production and put an end to the working class.
July 2, 2012 at 10:47 pm
Fantastic post! Thanks a lot!
I've been considering this question myself recently. If the worker knows she is exploited but has accepted capitalist relations as the only realistic precondition for her flourishing, then should we even consider the worker as a revolutionary agent? At least not a conscious one, I'd say. Yes, we ought to speed capitalism along its trajectory, however, there really are no communist infiltrators staying late at the office to more quickly achieve this. The revolutionary activity of the worker is unconscious and compulsory.
The working class is the largest component of the capitalist class in toto. And if politics is an expression of class struggle, then the only real politics will be those of the unemployed and underemployed against capitalism in toto, including those who accept their role as the working class and defend capitalism, i.e. their employers' interests. I believe Moshe Postone envisions a vast Roman-style proletariat of the unemployed, which will need to be garrisoned and entertained.Every commercial I hear these days mentions how ConglomuCorp or whoever maintains so many thousands of jobs. This is, of course, extortion, a veiled threat of mass immiseration.
This sounds like an elitist thesis, but I think large numbers of unemployed educated people will change things. I don't mean that those with degrees are smarter, but they ARE burdened with debts which were intended to be paid off by higher paying salaries.-
July 4, 2012 at 10:54 am
Sorry I took so long to answer your comment, Brian.
Yes to your first question. Even if we assume the worker fully accepts capitalist relations of production, she is still a revolutionary agent, not because she is nevertheless in conflict with capitalism on a non-revolutionary basis, but precisely because capitalist relations of production are themselves revolutionary. Remember Marx's rebuke to the draft of the Gotha Progamme, where the writers declared even the bourgeoisie is reactionary. Marx explained the capitalist was revolutionary because it was the bearer of modern industry. So, to say the worker is not in fundamental conflict with the capitalist is to say it is not in conflict with the historical trend personified in the capitalist. Does this makes sense, or am I phrasing this clumsily — or both 🙂 We do not speed capitalism along its historical trajectory by working tirelessly on its behalf, but through our struggle against the capitalist's attempt to revolutionize the existing mode of production at our expense. Thus is not necessarily unconscious as to our determination to not pay the cost of capital's expansion, although it may be unconscious with regards to the historical results of this fight.
With regards to unemployment, Postone, etc., I would say that the fight against unemployment is actually a fight between the two great classes over what constitutes the socially necessary labor time of society as the productive forces increase in their effectiveness — this is both with regards to the quantity of labor time demanded of the working class by the capitalist and with regards to the parasitic non-labor of a handful.
What do you think?
July 6, 2012 at 12:23 pm
In this piece the writer, in a voice that is both beautiful and brutal informs this reader, who admittedly, has not read the Liebowitz piece of this: Liebowitz does indeed open the door and looks outside and reports exactly what he sees. However, Jehu spots the door behind the door and exposes, not in black and white, but, in true color the entire vision and what lay beyond the horizon. Well done, mate.
July 7, 2012 at 8:30 am
I am more convinced than ever that your interest in "fairness" and "justice" is not simply a moral argument, but a revolutionary one as well — you always teach me. 🙂
July 17, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Let me say exactly what I mean to say. One can make and put forth a great deal of thought and insight based upon study and even leaps of intuitive knowledge on the subject of this ism or that ism and the thoughtful pages of this site prove to be an exceptional example of just that intellectual pursuit and it is to be admired for a great many reasons. But, there is also this.
If one were to just stop for a time and stand still, as a colossus, as it were, legs apart and staring down at the Earth with one foot planted in pre-history and the other planted in the nearly opaque future one could, for thousands of years have seen a multiple, almost infinite-pathway future. This was true in 1700, 1800, even 1900 and perhaps as late as of 1945.
As the post-war years gave birth to the post-modern time we live in currently, the infinite number of pathways lessened more with each ticking second until now.
And now, it seems to this humble writer that history has become limited, for reasons I shall not enter into here, with only two pathways from which to, (and choose is not the correct word here,) create.
One pathway leads to what, for now, I shall call: A Way of Life.
The other pathway is obvious, too obvious to name and so I choose not to do so.The Greeks are what must be called a flinty people. Their early cosmology has them literally coming to life from the very rocks of their land and islands. They have, today and over the course of thousands of years, developed, A Way of Life. Hell, they have earned A Way of Life. Old Europe, as that rube Rumsfield referred to them share a similar tale in the telling. The point being, after thousands of years of war and Nobility this and Nobility that, they too have come to the firm belief that there exists, A Way of Life. The people of these lands cannot and will not suffer having the word Austerity replace what they have come to call A Way of Life.
America is young and possesses no history that can bring any sense other than shame to them, and as a nation and a people they have developed no notion of what may be called, A Way of Life.A Way of Life requires no great miracle, nothing greater than, say, the sharing of the of the loaves and fishes. Oh, and it will require the relinquishment of guile, that force than drives the Nimrod's of this world. It will require that.
There is an old French proverb, "Smile at the Sun, Drink the Wine, and let the World be the World." This not so wild a dream as those who benefit from denying it would lead you to believe. To me, this is the baseline of freedom of association.
Now are those who say that this is but a dream, this writer must be mad.
This idea arrives with naivety and that may be so. "But there is also experience and truth.
In any event, it is the only way we can live."
I invite you to gaze down the alternative single pathway open to our shared history and tell me, what do you see. -
August 3, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Really good piece overall. I think you hit the nail on the head with Lebowitz. Below are some additional thoughts. Also, I just read Robert Kurz's "The Socialism of the Producers as Logical Impossibility" and it struck me as having a great deal of affinity with your ideas.
The concept of "appearance" in Marx is related to Hegel's use of the term. It is not mere illusion, but the form of appearance or "mode of existence" of an essence. Essence must appear, but it does not appear in an immediate fashion, that is, essence is not directly the object of experience. Hence Marx's point that "all science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided" in his critique of vulgar political economy in section 3 of Chapter 48 of Capital, Vol. 3. However, as a student of Hegel, Marx not only knows that essences must appear, but also that essences only exist through their forms of appearance, i.e. that the forms of appearance are necessary and not merely an illusion which may be bypassed or which is a deception. The appearance really is even if it seems to contradict the essence.
In the case you mention from Lebowitz, where "Fixed capital, machinery, technology, science—all necessarily appear only as capital", appearance refers to the fact that means of production and knowledge associated with it can only exist in the social form of capital, that is, what is material wealth and material means of producing and reproducing human existence necessarily appears as capital, as mere moments of a particular social relation. In what sense is that an illusion or misleading? They appear to be means of reproducing capital and capitalist social relations if they actually produce material wealth. In the same sense, concrete labor is inseparable from abstract labor: concrete labor is the form of appearance of particular labors as particular labors producing capital, that is, particular labors which are simultaneously abstract labor.
So when Marx states, as you say, that "The accumulation of knowledge and of skill, of the general productive forces of the social brain, is thus absorbed into capital, as opposed to labour, and hence appears as an attribute of capital", he does not mean it is really an attribute of the working class because as he says it is actually "absorbed into capital, as opposed to labour".
This is so in two senses. In the first sense, labour in capitalist society is variable capital and its skills are those of variable capital. In the second sense, insofar as capital is forced to replace living labour with dead labour and thus take those skills and knowledge and literally absorb them into capital in the sense of fixed capital.
Insofar as this latter process has accelerated and fixed capital and the labor process as a whole are increasingly products of the direct application of science, the means of production and the labor process are increasingly not appropriations of the workers' knowledge and skill. Rather, they are increasingly the products of a kind of haute bourgeois consciousness, of the natural sciences.
Lebowitz is thus really behind the curve when he says that capital "is the workers' own product turned against them" because their own activity that produced the product was already not their own because it had already been sold as a commodity with a use-value of producing commodities. Their own activity was always against them and the product was thus never theirs and was indeed produced against them.
So the question really is, was Marx "explaining how capitalism was creating a class of individuals completely at home within directly social labor… [and] making an argument that the capitalist class was the obstacle to the most rapid development of both social labor and the social laborer, and an obstacle to the rapid improvement in the productivity of labor that puts an end to the material necessity for labor and the division of labor"?
Before I answer that, I want to nitpick a bit. The abolition of labor does not per se refer to the abolition of labor as the necessary mediation between Man and Nature or what in Vol. 3 Marx refers to as the Realm of Necessity. Labor can be 1) dramatically reduced to the point where unskilled and low skill labor can be effectively eliminated, and 2) the remaining labor can be highly rewarding, complex, intellectually engaging activity of the sort one associates with being a doctor, an engineer, a physicist, etc. The division of labor most certainly cannot be eliminated if by that one means that everyone will be able to do everything or that specialization will cease to exist, rather than the separation of mental and manual labor, or the separation of decision/direction and action/production, or control from labor. Rather, I would suggest that the abolition of labor entails the abolition of labor as the mediation between Man and Man, that is, labor as social mediation, as domination. Further, the division of labor will be superseded as hierarchical, that is, as reflecting labor as a form of domination and as it will not be what defines a life, will not generate a crippling narrowness. That is, life for all of humanity will be determined not by the Realm of Necessity, but by the Realm of Freedom, and what remains of the activity in the Realm of Necessity, can be so enriched as to itself be rewarding and freely chosen activity.
I realize that you say "puts an end to the material necessity for labor", but I would suggest that this is never quite possible, as highly skilled, complex labor remains labor which is a material necessity. Labor, no matter how engaging, remains within the realm of necessity.
Marx writes, "Freedom…[in the realm of necessity] can consist only in this, that socialized man, the associated producers, govern the human metabolism with nature in a rational way, bringing it under their collective control instead of being dominated by it as a blind power; accomplishing it with the least expenditure of energy and in conditions most worthy and appropriate for their human nature…" (Marx 1981, p. 958-59).
Now back to the main question.
What is most important in your formulation is the idea that capital creates a class completely at home within directly social labor. However, the capitalist class is not the obstacle, since the elimination of the capitalist class is not the problem, but the overcoming of the capital-labor relation. We have seen time and again in the 20th century that getting rid of the capitalist class nowhere has gotten rid of capital. However, I would say that this is possibly quite close to what I have in mind by the expansion of the public sphere against the private, that is, pushing on those conditions which reduce the need for labor and delinks human existence and quality of life from labor.
Labor in capitalist society is not directly social in appearance, however. It appears to be private labor and what appears "fair" and "just" is the private appropriation of the product of labor, whether in the form of wages or profits. What increasingly appears "unfair" and "unjust" is the directly social appropriation or distribution of the product of labor by people not engaged in private labor. As I have said, this appearance is no mere illusion, but how labor actually is in capitalist society as wage-labor, as a commodity sold by its owner to a buyer.
The state actually does take the private product of individuals, who do not see themselves as engaged in social labor, and redistributes some of it to those who did not, for whatever reason, sell their privately held capacity to labor. It does this less and less so, and if the so-called far right (globally) had their way, it would not do so at all. That is, the state would cease to be the illusory community in all respects except those that were about the administration of violence and the guarantee of contracts.
The capitalist class and the state are not the problem, but symptoms, or rather, social forms predicated on the value form. The problem is that labor is the primary social mediation and thus gives form to our social being. You cannot eliminate the capitalist class and the state and then "do everything capitalism is doing without capitalism" because that still means organizing life around labor. Making labor, private or social, the organizing principle of life is capitalism.
What is at stake is both the end of personal relations of dependence and material relations of dependence, the latter being characteristic of and unique to capitalist social relations. We must cut the tie between labor and the right to live well, but this can only really be done on the basis of the reduction of necessary labor for each individual to a minimum and its replacement with machinery.
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Thank you for your reply. I am going to study it as you provide a number very interesting arguments i have never considered. I am not, by any means, familiar with Hegel. I found your discussion very enlightening.
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Mark White believed.
The East Mississippi Community College men''s basketball team had completed its preseason preparations for the 2009-10 season and the Lions were ready to discuss their goals.
The list was packed with title chances.
As White examined an itinerary that included winning a MACJC North Division title, a state and a regional title and then a national championship, he knew the Lions had it in them to accomplish each one.
More than five months later, the Lions'' journey has reached its ultimate destination: Hutchinson, Kan., the site of the NJCAA Division I Men;''s Basketball Championship.
At 2 p.m. Tuesday, No. 12 EMCC (26-5) will make its first appearance in the national tournament when they take on Brunswick (N.C.) in a first-round game. Brunswick also is making its first appearance in the national tournament.
For White, the trip is the realization of a dream.
"It feels great," White said. "It is definitely a reward for the kids and all of their hard work that they have put in this year. It''s about the kids, and it''s about your players. They''re the one who put in the hard work and who are doing the things they do. I am very, very happy."
EMCC reached its first national tournament after it accomplished two of the three goals it set in October. The Lions won the MACJC North Division regular-season title, were the runner-up to Pearl River C.C. in the state championship, and won the NJCAA Region 23 Tournament. EMCC defeated Northeast Mississippi C.C. (86-79), Hinds C.C. (81-74 in OT), and Itawamba C.C. (78-64) at Mississippi College in Clinton to make history.
White never doubted his team had the ability to do it. He said he felt the Lions had all of the pieces of the puzzle in place and would still be alive in the middle of March if everything came together.
The Lions are still playing even though they are without two of their most highly regarded players: freshman center Chris Brand, of Starkville High, and Colby Wren, a former standout at Kemper County High School.
Still, the Lions, who returned four players from the 17-11 team that last season advanced to the semifinals of the state and the Region 23 Tournament took the next step. White said hard work and leadership provided by sophomores CoCo Ware and John Harris, both of Starkville High, has provided the spark.
Ware and Harris, two of the team''s three seniors, helped make sure the Lions'' chemistry has been there all season. White said both players have matured as leaders and complemented each other.
"CoCo works super hard and also is a vocal leader too," White said. "John provides the kind of leadership you want based on how hard he works, his mentality, and his approach to the game. He plays defense and rebounds, and those two things are staples of our program and are what our program is all about."
White doesn''t see any difference in his Lions as they prepare for their national tournament opener. He said he loves his team''s mind-set and feels the past four days of practice have it ready to take on a talented Brunswick team he had an opportunity to scout last week. He isn''t quite sure how the Lions will handle their first multi-talented opponent, but he doesn''t doubt his team has what it takes to get the job done.
After all, he knew in October the Lions had it in them to win the national championship, so Tuesday means it finally will be time to take the next step toward accomplishing the last goal on the team''s to-do list.
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DVD playback native to windows? Not XP right?
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Dont suppose it lets you screengrab a blu ray? Been searching for a way to do this for ages, but its proven impossible.
I'm a long time user of pdvd5 and I'm still impressed with it, it really shows up the low resolution of syandard dvd's on a large computer monitor. I presume this version stil has features like dolby headphone & cyberlink eagle vision. having recently purchased a laptop with a blu-ray player I will probably buy this software as again I repeat how impressed i have been with pdvd5.
after visiting cyberlink web site I won't be purchasing this after all as I'm quite disgruntled about £/$ pricing. pdvd9 ultra, needed for blu-ray playback, is 㿻.99 but dollar price is $99.95. at the current exchange rate we are paying $115.90, I haven't got 'mug' written on my forehead. no wonder piracy is so popular.
@alchobot, as usual you've forgotten to add the 15% VAT to the US$ price, which would makes it, wait for it...$115.
@pmcfadden - you'll need to rip the disc first (using something like AnyDVD HD), then play back the files in MPC that'll let you take screen grabs. You can also convert to .mkv using MakeMKV if that helps too.
As some one who stupidly bought a previous incarnation of PowerDVD. All I can say is that open source software is far more useful. The continuing need of commercial software to go bloatware is astounding; profit, self justification and the latest interface design being a small part of it.
Let me elaborate: I can play 1080p, ex BluRay material on an aged Athlon64 3200+/Ati AGP card of mine using carefully chosen O/source software with little issue. With PowerDVD? - forget it!
In addition there is no support for MKV - an increasingly recognised container of back up copies of HD movies
㿼 for movie software - for-get-it!!
I couldn't agree more. 㿼 for unessential bloatware is crazy. I wouldn't buy Power DVD even if it was free!
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Even as you indulge and enjoy and, I hope, use some portion control and selectivity, it's not too soon to get some help with ways to keep food pleasure in play, while reducing calorie loads, salt, sugar and unhealthy fat. How? With a food makeover, that's how. Here are some recommendations that you can use now and especially in the New Year. They will help to pleasure your palate and support your health.
Dairy proteins like low-fat Greek yogurt can be filling, with about 100 calories per serving and provide a base for a healthy parfait, soups, and as a topping on half a baked potato.
Healthy grains like wild rice, quinoa, couscous, or the more starchy vegetables like sweet potatoes (rich in fiber) and peas (which have protein) should be your go-to carbohydrate choices. Though some experts recommend cutting starch and grains completely, I think most people rely on these foods for energy and for pleasure. You do need to choose the superstars, like the ones I list, and have fewer portion-controlled servings daily.
Raisins and berries can provide sweet and tart flavors which our palates crave, since we have become accustomed to eating so many processed, refined foods. These fruits can be added to oatmeal, yogurts, and salads to add flavor with fiber. Blueberries also freeze well, making them perfect as a cold, refreshing snack.
Nuts like almonds seem to support satiation, and the crunch and time they take to eat will also provide satisfaction and pleasure. Choose actual nuts over nut butter because of that "crunch factor." You can also mix nuts and small amounts of water in a food processor to make a "cream" that is nutritious and delicious -- perfect in desserts and soups.
Green tea does seem to inspire a thermogenic or metabolic lift, though many studies suggest that you have to drink several cupfuls a day to appreciate that impact. Certainly unsweetened green tea can fill you up with zero calories.
Beans in general are low in calories and a good source of satiating protein and fiber. Soybeans are complete proteins, meaning they contain all of the essential amino acids. Consider adding beans to stews, soups, salads and combining them with avocado to lighten a guacamole dip.
Spices, fresh and dried, can help you to flavor dishes with few added calories, and they can also help you to use less salt. Spice up kale leaves, drizzle lightly with olive or corn oil and bake at 425 degrees to make healthy seasoned kale chips.
Coffee is a good source of antioxidants and can help to boost your metabolism in the morning. Consider a cup of java to start your day. Avoid the blended, sugary, whipped cream topped coffee drinks for a simple cup with some skim milk.
A hard-boiled egg as a snack provides a filling protein boost for around 70 to 80 calories. Just remember that one egg a day, for most people, is fine but if you have a high total cholesterol level (or elevated LDL) you might want to opt for scrambled egg whites or a product like Egg Beaters instead.
Dips are a big part of food pleasure, so consider a bean-based dip like hummus made with chickpeas and olive oil. Or make a yogurt-based dip with spices and lemon juice. You can also create a decadent dessert by melting dark chocolate and serving it with a variety of fruits and berries.
Some final holiday eating tips: Be mindful, be selective, talk more than you eat, and give away the leftovers!! Happy Holidays!!
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"I feel like every holiday is better with just the touch of a theme, so because these guys are such a good time, I brought in over 1,000 disco balls," Laurie says. "There's going to be so much glitz and glamour – it's perfect for a Hollywood, Southern California Christmas."
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Rather than a traditional holiday green, Laurie opted for ornaments and wrapping paper in bright chartreuse. "It sets off the navy and has so much energy," she says.
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Even the 6-foot-tall copper Nutcracker is ready for a dance party: Notice the disco ball hanging from his wrist.
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Kendra poses with husband Hank Baskett and 3-year-old son, Hank Baskett IV, in her bold, disco-inspired holiday living room.
To tie in the foyer with the living room, Laurie bedecked the banisters with the same white garland used over the fireplace mantel. "I could have done a normal, green garland, but instead I added copper spray paint to the tips of all of our beautiful white garlands," she says. "It gives it a glow and a sparkle and another warm element."
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Tarzan Alive will be appreciated most by those readers already familiar with Burroughs's Tarzan novels, so reading at least one or two of them is advisable. Discussions can then consider what use Farmer has made of his primary source material in creating his own version of such a well-known figure. Readers should also focus on the ways that Tarzan serves as a vehicle for social criticism, particularly of environmental issues, and how as an Outsider, he is well suited to provide an objective commentary on the follies and cruelties of civilization. Finally, given Jane's importance in Tarzan's life and to the biography's themes, readers might want to question Farmer's apparent decision to leave her undeveloped as a character. How convincing is the supposedly larger-than-life love affair between Tarzan and Jane?
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John Patrick Magrath, teacher, lecturer, soldier and businessman: born Alexandria, Egypt 21 July 1920; married 1955 Margaret Cramer (two sons, three daughters); died Petworth, West Sussex 9 November 2005.
As a young intelligence officer, John Magrath won a mention in Despatches for his pivotal role in ensuring that the Allies' liberation of the historic city of Urbino in August 1944 was achieved without major casualties or substantial destruction of its historic buildings.
Capt Magrath had been asked by his commanding officer, Maj-Gen A.W.W. Holworthy, then in command of the Fourth Indian Division, to discover with all speed whether Urbino was still in enemy hands. Having driven swiftly to the base of the city's walls, he hid his motorcycle in the gorse and discreetly made his way into Urbino.
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John Magrath was born in Alexandria of an Irish father and an Italian mother. He was only four years old when his father, Gerald Magrath, died and he spent a somewhat unsettled childhood with his widowed mother and two brothers before finding, in the rugged monastic ethos of Ampleforth College, the sense of continuity and stability he needed to flourish academically. Whilst there he also benefited from the mentorship of one of the school's most distinguished lay masters, Walter Shewring, translator of Homer and friend and literary executor of Eric Gill, who instilled in him a lifelong love of art and literature.
A promising undergraduate career at Cambridge was interrupted by the Second World War. His linguistic skills made him a natural choice for the Intelligence Corps, with whom, as well as in Italy, he saw service in North Africa, Sicily and Greece. After the war he joined Shell International, spending seven years in Brazil, and having become fluent in Portuguese (and enough of an expert in Brazilian literature to write long articles on the subject for the TLS) was an obvious choice for a later posting to Angola.
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Not sure what you are saying. Is this a reformulation complaint?
I loved this one. It is very luxurious i would say. I have no deception with Caron until now. Maybe there is more Caron in this same vein, maybe Bellodgia? Any other house-scent despite the well know chanel Egoiste? Thanks!
Not sure what you are saying. Is this a reformulation complaint?
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I find it similar to these:
Davidoff Zino -- I can't stand birch tar, so Zino is way more up my alley than 3me Homme which does have a touch of that "leather" ingredient. Zino has a huge civet accord in it though and that is too challenging for some. Try to get the vintage "script letters" bottle -- very, very smooth transitions and excellent longevity. This frag keeps moving up my fav ladder and is in the top 5 now probably. 5 stars. Edit: Bigsly is the one who introduced me to it!! Thanks bro ... we've done like 50 swaps :P
Givenchy Gentleman -- a bit more spare in structure, this one shares the vanilla, patchouli and birch tar of 3me Homme but without a lot of the complexity in the heart. Stripped down.
I thought about Insense by Givenchy.
"...her fragrance all in my keeping; softly she comes in the night." Lyrics, Gordon Lightfoot, "Softly."
No i was looking for one scent that could be as good as third man. It may be from Caron, so i asked about bellodgia because it has a floral sweet description in some reviews. Or maybe another spicy-oriental scent. Shalimar? Havana? Haven´t tried those yet.
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Zino should be the vintage right? People told me that the reformulated is too bad. I am confused.
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Zino by Davidoff
Lippizan by Parfums de Marly. Presents jasmine in a smoother, more luxurious way. Easily one of my favourite frags,
ointments and perfume delight the heart....
I'll second Insensè as another great example of a masculine floral but it completely lacks the fougerey aspect of Le Troisieme Homme. Lippizan is a good call if you like some leather.
Not exactly similar but still well worth checking out in your case: Ungaro II
I looked in Luca Turin book right now about heritage, and he puts in a same "group" just what you Alfarom said and others BN´s... Those are: Zino Davidoff, Globe, Troisième Homme, Insensé, Bel-Ami. Then, he ends: " Héritage (1992), derived from Zino, was another failed try at making masculine fragrance stop dragging its knuckles on the ground"
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I've been toying with a similar idea for a couple of months now. Very similar to what you describe except that the app would be focused on indexing and sharing GEDCOM (genealogy data) files in a P2P network. My plan is to use Lucene to index the GEDCOM files with searchable fields such as surname, location (of birth, marriage, death, etc) and dates of various events in an individual's life. The client itself would probably be a Swing app, but I've been tinkering with Thinlets lately and they're starting to appeal to me. Finally, I had planned on using JXTA to implement the P2P part. Mostly because that's all I know about and partly because I have a friend who authored a book on JXTA that I can annoy with questions if necessary. (Incidentally--and slightly off-topic, in case anyone wants to try something like this with JXTA, let me save you some headache: I recommend against using Peer Resolver for performing the search...it only *sorta* works. A better choice, according to my author friend, would be propogate pipes, but I've not tried this yet.) "Robert A. Decker" wrote: > I wish I had time to work on this for fun, but I was thinking about what > could be a fun lucene project... > > One could build a peer-to-peer document search application. Each client > would index the documents on its harddrive, or documents in a particular > directory. When the user at the computer does a search it will look at the > documents on its harddrive, but also send out a request for the search on > the P2P network. > > First though, are there any P2P java frameworks out there? One could build > one, perhaps with OpenJMS, but it would be nice if one already existed. > > Hmm... if anyone else thinks this would be cool I'd be willing to work on > this with you. > > thanks, > Robert A. Decker > > http://www.robdecker.com/ > http://www.planetside.com/ > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:email@example.com> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:email@example.com> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> | |
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The engines will also be firing at , Cheshire and a Victorian crank-up lights up the in Dyfed Wales.
You can get the worker's view of the industrial age at in Belper where Mr Strutt will be introducing his millworkers and framework knitters in a night of story telling, readings and period entertainments.
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In London tells the story of modern East End mariners with a special documentary screening and will be introducing the Age of Enlightenment in their late Night Historical Experience.
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At the in Dorchester you can wander among the silent and imposing Chinese soldiers after nightfall or pop over to the newly opened for an evening exploration of its mosaic floors and hypocaust.
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I don't think it's a typo. I recently stayed at a hotel where they gave every guest a $10 gas card. I haven't used it yet because it was for a chain of stations that doesn't have any locations in my town. Besides, right now it would only buy me between 2 and 3 gallons - rah rah.
I suggest they have a "Win a GM car and be GM for a day" contest. I bet that would be a roaring success.
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Indeed, a better promotion would be a coupon worth 5 gallons of gas, regardless of price.
It's $10 for all 500 fans - that's the thing, so $100 would be way too much. Think back to the year 2000 - would anyone have given a gas card like this?
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