Exchange values are based on socially necessary labour time, not just any individuals labour time spent on making a commodity. In other words, the social average expected time taken to make any given good is what informs its exchange value. This means that exchange value is inclusive of the average number of burnt cookies produced by an average chef/cookie machine.

Machinery imparts no value into any single good because most machines can produce tens of thousands of commodities before requiring maintenance or replacing. The labour time spent making the machine is distributed evenly across the commodities it produces, so if it took 150 hours to make the machine, and the machine makes 50000 things before it breaks, each commodity has 150/50000 = 0.003 hours of labour time imparted as value into the object, I.e. it’s basically a rounding error.

Marx’s Capital mentions at one point that the working class in Manchester were reliant on drugs like opium to cope with their insane working conditions and poor life/housing conditions.

It’s not a new thing at all.

The spectrum of autism isn’t mild to disabling.

It’s a spectrum of presenting symptoms. What “functional autism” is, is a constellation of symptoms that means you can just about navigate the world as expected by neurotypical people. “Non-functioning” autism or “profound” autism are where the constellation of symptoms makes you unable to function in the world. This is more often than not inclusive of non-verbal autisms and poor motor control autisms.

“Functional” autism can be disabling for the individual in certain conditions - they may be completely unable to read social cues, or be severely impacted by certain stimulatory environments.

Foundations laid today will be vital for the ripening of the movement tomorrow.

If your material conditions aren’t basically forcing you to always try and find a way out (when you’ve already gained the beginnings of communist consciousness), you might just be struggling with the fact that your own life isn’t really that bad, and slipping into old habits.

Keep reading Marxist theory and developing your class consciousness and killing the little bourgeois-self in your head trying to commandeer your brain.