Sister Souljah says public schools, private education, and college failed to teach her about culture, business, or organizing institutions in the black community.

From what I read, and forgive me if I am wrong, Sister Souljah may not have been an explicit communist as someone like Angela Davis, but I came across this video today and found she was very on point. Solidarity to all of my black comrades. <3

  • ElGosso [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    It’s extremely true. I knew about the labor theory of value ever since I worked a shitty retail job that would take in ~6x more every night than the staff’s combined wages for the two week pay period, years before I was ever exposed to Marx.

    • redtea
      5·
      5 months ago

      It’s jarring when you see it.

      I remember the first time that I was sent with my own paperwork to get signed off. I’d been sub-contracted out before but the office usually dealt with the paperwork. I was paid about $10/hour at the time. The paperwork showed the end-customer was paying not only $100/hour for my services but an extra $14/hour for wear and tear on tools and equipment. They were my fucking tools! And I didn’t get paid a penny extra for wear and tear. My own tools were getting paid more than I was.

      At that point I knew I hated employers. I could deal with the shitty hours and managers. A combination of thinking that hard work would make me rich and finding subtle ways to take the piss saw me through that. But the difference between what I made and what I earned. That turned me. I only needed a vocabulary to explain what I already knew.

      When I started to read Marx and Marxists almost a decade later, things clicked.