{"id":262088,"date":"2025-12-17T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=262088"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:54:48","slug":"my-mate-chris","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/my-mate-chris\/","title":{"rendered":"My mate Chris \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel a bit of a swine sometimes, usually when I\u2019m talking to my mate Chris. Although he knows more than most about Marx\u2019s economics, he recently told me he was pleased about Mamdani\u2019s election as New York mayor because the poor would benefit from free public transport and rent controls. Here\u2019s the swine-ish bit \u2013 I reminded him that the law of value applies to every commodity, including labour power, that those two proposals from Mamdani would, if applied, allow employers to reduce wage levels, and perhaps result in a slight shift of wealth from landlords to employers.<\/p>\n

\u2018So it\u2019s nowt to do with socialism then?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018That\u2019s right, Chris, sorry!\u2019<\/p>\n

For more on this topic see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-262088","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/262088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}