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MortalShadow

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  • Yeah, it's a big hall and they don't have much seperating the rooms in terms of any actual solid walls, so it gets noisy at times. But considering it's all run by volunteers and donations, it's pretty good at what it's doing, lol. by MortalShadow (Mon 11th Mar 2019 10:17am)
  • > ex royal marine mate. [So another kinda terrorist?](https://i.imgur.com/pD3liOJ.jpg) by MortalShadow (Tue 12th Mar 2019 7:37pm)
  • What problem did you have with our Socialist Party table? :c by MortalShadow (Sat 16th Mar 2019 1:44am)
  • I don't think that's the case. Most socialists understand that climate change cannot be solved without getting rid of capitalism. The environment will always be an externality which costs can be pushed onto, and so as long as capitalist exists, so will corporations who destroy the environment as a result of their path towards growth and profit by MortalShadow (Sat 16th Mar 2019 11:16am)
  • Yep, other airports might join in soon too. Depending on the circumstances by MortalShadow (Tue 18th Jun 2019 8:19pm)
  • https://www.facebook.com/SocialistPartyScotland/videos/2127985394165935/ by MortalShadow (Wed 19th Jun 2019 10:09pm)
  • https://www.facebook.com/SocialistPartyScotland/videos/2127985394165935/ They're fighting for decent pay and pension right! by MortalShadow (Wed 19th Jun 2019 10:38pm)
  • What can ye expect from profit-seeking corporations eh. by MortalShadow (Fri 26th Jul 2019 2:21am)
  • have any suggestions to improve? by MortalShadow (Fri 26th Jul 2019 11:41am)
  • Shut the fuck up you fucking nerd. by MortalShadow (Fri 26th Jul 2019 11:09pm)
  • Howd you feel if he read that ya fat cunt. Don't trivialise someone's disability by MortalShadow (Fri 26th Jul 2019 11:46pm)
  • "We can leave it to the literary small fry to solemnly quibble over these phantasies, which today only make us smile, and to crow over the superiority of their own bald reasoning, as compared with such “insanity”. For ourselves, we delight in the stupendously grand thoughts and germs of thought that everywhere break out through their phantastic covering, and to which these Philistines are blind." https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch01.htm by MortalShadow (Sat 27th Jul 2019 12:31am)
  • those are pretty apparent to me lmao. you're too much of a Philistine to see bud. by MortalShadow (Sat 27th Jul 2019 1:13am)
  • nah he's not got his head up his arse so at least he can see a bit. by MortalShadow (Sat 27th Jul 2019 1:23am)
  • It's bursting outta my brain when I see shit like you so ofc by MortalShadow (Sat 27th Jul 2019 5:47am)
  • buddy the ideology of capitalism is bout to end human civilisation so idk what you talking about. Also you seem to forget the first world war, and all the famines caused by capitalism in the last 100 years, not to mention all the other wars and forms of economic and neo-colonial imperialism. >It's truly a shame you may have to read more than a pamphlet to understand society. Yeah, that's why you analyse society from a materialist point of view :). #The materialist conception of history The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure; that in every society that has appeared in history, the manner in which wealth is distributed and society divided into classes or orders is dependent upon what is produced, how it is produced, and how the products are exchanged. From this point of view, the final causes of all social changes and political revolutions are to be sought, not in men's brains, not in men's better insights into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange. They are to be sought, not in the philosophy, but in the economics of each particular epoch. The growing perception that existing social institutions are unreasonable and unjust, that reason has become unreason, and right wrong [1], is only proof that in the modes of production and exchange changes have silently taken place with which the social order, adapted to earlier economic conditions, is no longer in keeping. From this it also follows that the means of getting rid of the incongruities that have been brought to light must also be present, in a more or less developed condition, within the changed modes of production themselves. These means are not to be invented by deduction from fundamental principles, but are to be discovered in the stubborn facts of the existing system of production. #What is, then, the position of modern Socialism in this connection? The present situation of society — this is now pretty generally conceded — is the creation of the ruling class of today, of the bourgeoisie. The mode of production peculiar to the bourgeoisie, known, since Marx, as the capitalist mode of production, was incompatible with the feudal system, with the privileges it conferred upon individuals, entire social ranks and local corporations, as well as with the hereditary ties of subordination which constituted the framework of its social organization. The bourgeoisie broke up the feudal system and built upon its ruins the capitalist order of society, the kingdom of free competition, of personal liberty, of the equality, before the law, of all commodity owners, of all the rest of the capitalist blessings. Thenceforward, the capitalist mode of production could develop in freedom. Since steam, machinery, and the making of machines by machinery transformed the older manufacture into modern industry, the productive forces, evolved under the guidance of the bourgeoisie, developed with a rapidity and in a degree unheard of before. But just as the older manufacture, in its time, and handicraft, becoming more developed under its influence, had come into collision with the feudal trammels of the guilds, so now modern industry, in its complete development, comes into collision with the bounds within which the capitalist mode of production holds it confined. The new productive forces have already outgrown the capitalistic mode of using them. And this conflict between productive forces and modes of production is not a conflict engendered in the mind of man, like that between original sin and divine justice. It exists, in fact, objectively, outside us, independently of the will and actions even of the men that have brought it on. Modern Socialism is nothing but the reflex, in thought, of this conflict in fact; its ideal reflection in the minds, first, of the class directly suffering under it, the working class. #Now, in what does this conflict consist? Before capitalist production — i.e., in the Middle Ages — the system of petty industry obtained generally, based upon the private property of the laborers in their means of production; in the country, the agriculture of the small peasant, freeman, or serf; in the towns, the handicrafts organized in guilds. The instruments of labor — land, agricultural implements, the workshop, the tool — were the instruments of labor of single individuals, adapted for the use of one worker, and, therefore, of necessity, small, dwarfish, circumscribed. But, for this very reason, they belonged as a rule to the producer himself. To concentrate these scattered, limited means of production, to enlarge them, to turn them into the powerful levers of production of the present day — this was precisely the historic role of capitalist production and of its upholder, the bourgeoisie. In the fourth section of Capital, Marx has explained in detail how since the 15th century this has been historically worked out through the three phases of simple co-operation, manufacture, and modern industry. But the bourgeoisie, as is shown there, could not transform these puny means of production into mighty productive forces without transforming them, at the same time, from means of production of the individual into social means of production only workable by a collectivity of men. The spinning wheel, the handloom, the blacksmith's hammer, were replaced by the spinning-machine, the power-loom, the steam-hammer; the individual workshop, by the factory implying the co-operation of hundreds and thousands of workmen. In like manner, production itself changed from a series of individual into a series of social acts, and the production from individual to social products. The yarn, the cloth, the metal articles that now come out of the factory were the joint product of many workers, through whose hands they had successively to pass before they were ready. No one person could say of them: "I made that; this is my product." by MortalShadow (Sun 28th Jul 2019 7:31am)
  • It's an educational meeting, and you can discuss with us how to proceed to make real change. The intention is, however, to make real change. By campaigning for trade unions to take action, by building workers' conciousness so they are able to strike. etc. Come along if you're interested :) by MortalShadow (Sun 28th Jul 2019 11:28pm)
  • Everything. A lot of people getting gardening stuff. Today we had social distancing in place in the queues, but yesterday we had the same amount of people, except packed shoulder to shoulder at checkouts. by MortalShadow (Sun 22nd Mar 2020 1:47pm)
  • Also, I'm saying this as an employee: B&Q is getting record sales rn and their considering giving bonuses to managers. All this while they pride themselves in employing over 55's. Currently the average employee age in my store would be around 60. B&q is literally trading profits for lives right now. We ust put out a sale, 20% of all plants. Shitton of people today buying plants and gardening equipment. About 80% of customers i served today were buying gardening tools, and plants. The whole staff was worked to the bone to get the people out the door. We had to close the store down for 5 minutes multiple times to let the queues clear. Halfway through the day we had to close our TradePoint section as we were only allowing customers in through 1 entrance. by MortalShadow (Sun 22nd Mar 2020 6:15pm)
  • DELETED Worked for 3 months in their Warehouse over at Kinning park. Throughout that time, was never told where fire exits are, what to do during a fire, and where the fire assembly point is, whole place was a dusty shithole, where you could taste the dust walking into some aisles. Some cloathes were soaked, dirty, mouldy, dusty or all 4, we were told to pack and send. Sometimes the heat was off and it was in the negatives. People were picking and packing in thick gloves and coats. by MortalShadow (Sun 22nd Mar 2020 6:26pm)
  • Capitalism drives the behaviour of individuals. by MortalShadow (Mon 23rd Mar 2020 8:32am)
  • >Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised. ― Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: Full Text of 1916 Edition >But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly? ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism: a popular outline by MortalShadow (Sat 20th Jun 2020 12:21am)
  • why are all these people PMC wanks? by MortalShadow (Mon 21st Sep 2020 10:22pm)
  • Cheers mate just found the redbull article there too, great spot, cheers to them. https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/red-bull-diy-tour-burnfields-glasgow by MortalShadow (Tue 1st Jun 2021 6:07pm)