MARXISM FOR DUMMIES

Author Boris Dežulović 9/22/2020 at 09:22 Related articles Mesic: Croatia should not withdraw the lawsuit against Serbia Support for Emir Suljagić The return of socialism Dirty games Knit for the sacred homeland neck ATV AND FACE TV: SUCCESSFULLY CELEBRATED FLOOD ANNIVERSARY Marxism for Dummies Konzum's cashiers paid Todorić the lease of the twenty-four meter long yacht Riva 85 Opera, and exclusive hunting weapons at the Austrian Fanzoj Jagdwaffen & Ribohunt, and safaris and stuffing of unfortunate animals, and even a fucking concession for the beach of their Villa Castello in Medveja It turned out to be a lesson in the basics of Marxism. Contrary to the popular libertarian opinion of successful entrepreneurs who can and must do what they want with their money, it turned out that for a start a) - it is not their money at all. No b), no c), no d). Only a) - it's not their money at all. Ivica Todorić with his family - and it is, of course, about him, who else? - he was literally cooling his ass on a toilet bowl covered with snakeskin at the expense of thousands of bribed saleswomen from his huge retail chain. What looked like a cash register to Konzum was actually a private ATM of the Todorić family. I’m not saying other successful entrepreneurs are cooling their ass on snake skin at the expense of thousands of their underpaid workers - after all, that assumption is the very foundation of the capitalist order - but other successful entrepreneurs pay snake skin toilets from dividends, plus from their companies ’balance sheets, that popular Marx surplus value: after all, that is why their workers are underpaid. Ivica Todorić, however, did not have that surplus at all. Ivica Todorić took the entire one billion kuna - which more or less a million was never seen in Kulmer's court - for himself and his family from his huge company, and the fact that the file of the County State's Attorney's Office in that case speaks volumes about the scope of this amazing operation. occupies more than eighty thousand pages, ten times more than the entire opus of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky , that the indictment was written on almost five hundred pages - yes, just like Mikhailovich's 'Crime and Punishment' - and that only a million has been spent to prepare the trial to date. and a half euros. The lord Todorić distributed a billion kuna - we read in that thick Croatian bildungsroman - to himself, his daughter, sons, son-in-law, brides, godparents and friends by paying unearned dividends and transferring private loans and expenses to the company. One hundred and twenty-three million kuna, for example, he transferred to his private account just to settle the loan for the purchase of Kulmer's court, another four or five million he paid to the exclusive London company Stephen Ryan Design & Decoration for the interior design project with toilet seats covered with snakeskin, crystal chandeliers , colorful pillows and golden faucets - as if made by Marko Grubnić and Maja Šuput at Red Bull and methamphetamines - and there is something small left for family gatherings, such as the cost of a private concert held by Nina Badrić in a dandy-furnished castle on the hill for the Glembays from Zmijavec . In all, the Todorićs spent a billion kuna on their small, trivial petty-bourgeois lives, carefully hiding and obscuring the trace of the illegally extracted money. In order for the Croatian serfs at the foot of the hill to better understand the nature of capitalism and to understand Marx's original accumulation of capital on this handy example, the money for the Fodfiric whims of the Todorićs, as we see, was not even the surplus accumulated by cutting costs on the left side of the balance sheet. salaries for thousands of disenfranchised treasurers and storekeepers: the serfs not only already understand that, but also consider it a legitimate right of the feudal lord. In their world, they don’t earn their salary anyway, but the boss shares it out of his pocket. In this richly illustrated example, however, it is not even that. Money for snakeskin toilets, chandeliers, pillows, gold faucets and Nina Badrić was non-existent money, debts repaid by the company, ergo money taken directly from its workers. London designers and Nina Badrić got their money: as far as they are concerned, the Todorić case does not exist. It exists only for cashiers and storekeepers, drivers and other employees, fifty thousand of them, who happily made up for their four to five million kuna, as well as all the other billion. Or, if it is easier for the serfs to understand, twenty thousand per capita. In that real, physical world, namely - in the real, physical Croatia - the boss does not earn his dividend, but is distributed to him by the workers from his own pocket. That is probably why this lesson is based on the basics of Marxism and illustrated with such banal images and examples. Wintering in St. Moritz and holidays in Ibiza, family trips to New York, Paris or Dubai, private charter flights with LunaJets, craze for Instagram luxury stores Louis Vuitton, Christian Louboutin, Chanel, Prada, Dolce, Valentino, Smart SRL or Ermenegildo Zegna, and other rich Kleinburger catalog scams: Konzum's cashiers also paid Todorić for the lease of the twenty-four-meter-long yacht Riva 85 Opera, and exclusive hunting weapons at the Austrian Fanzoj Jagdwaffen & Ribohunt, and safaris and stuffing of unfortunate animals, and even fucking their fucking concession for Casiel Bears! Of course, just a few years ago those same pictures were illustrations of success. It was perfectly natural for Croatian serfs, I said, to Tudjman Glembay and his family enjoy incomprehensible luxury while the cashiers pay him a few thousand kuna to clear the snow around Konzum's stores. That is the very essence of capitalism: what the fuck would someone start a business and build a multinational concern if he would distribute half of his billion surplus to workers, to surprise them with, say, ten thousand kuna for Christmas? What's the point? Well, they didn't earn those ten thousand. They did not earn even those three and a half thousand kuna salary: he gave them to them. If he hadn't been so generous, at the end of the year he would have had only a moment to calculate, so at least two billion more. Todorić would distribute two billion of his private money to the cashiers every year, so he can probably spend one on himself, children and toilet bowls covered with snakeskin. It turned out, however, that the genius businessman Ivica Todorić was not so genius. Finally, neither the first nor the last. In a simple lesson, however, such an entrepreneur would hide his losses and style his annual financial statements just so that his company would survive in the relentless, as it is called, free market. As Croats, however, are just learning capitalism, their lesson is more from Capitalism for Dummies: their boss did not hide his losses and groom his annual financial statements just to save the company, but to fuck around Las Vegas and his daughter unit, a treasure to his father, paid for a cocktail from Domestos at the One & Only hotel pool in the Maldives. If even that can't - let's repeat the material - what the fuck was building such a multinational concern in the first place? Croatian serfs, of course, learned nothing from that lesson: none of them got mad, not even so much that, say, under cover of night - while the noble Ivo is in Las Vegas, and the family in the Maldives and the Seychelles - he jumped the fence and set fire to the Kulmers. courtyards along with golden faucets and a snakeskin toilet. This richly illustrated lesson, however, does not serve that purpose. It is designed and illustrated precisely to show how this - namely, that no one gets pissed - is even possible. And it is possible, and that would be roughly the point, because every Croatian serf, if his shitty life had been arranged differently, would have been Ivica Todorić. That is why the lesson includes snakeskin, golden faucets, expensive crystal chandeliers, stuffed pheasants, a private concert by Nina Badrić, cocktails from Domestos at the pool of the One & Only hotel in the Maldives, and other rich bullshit from the Kleinburger catalog, silent suffering numb Croatian serfs. None of them would ever jump the fence to set fire to Kulmer's court, along with the golden taps and the snakeskin toilet, but to live in them. Capitalist Croatia is, in short, the country of the poor Todorićs. Only one has learned and understood the lesson of capitalism, while the others will have to rehearse. Portalnovosti.com