My problem with this is, who gets to decide where bourgeoisie start and ends. Because for the majority of the world, the average American is a selfish bourgeois with a big house and two cars, who thinks oppression is when the gas price rise. Kill all the bourgeois fine, but who gets to decide who lives and who dies?
edit: jeez americans, we dont have to agree on everything and downvote to hell just because someone says something we dont like. Maybe in the US shooting people you dont like seems like a resonable solution, but Iām sorry itās not that simple in the rest of the world.
Because for the majority of the world, the average American is a selfish bourgeois with a big house and two cars, who thinks oppression is when the gas price rise.
I mean I fucking live here and thatās pretty much my assessment as well to be honest. Maybe not your average american if weāre working on like, whoās right just based on home ownership statistics, but certainly, thatās not really an invalid perception.
This is two questions in one. Cowbee is addressing who is and isnāt bourgeois.
As to who lives and who dies: nobody has to die, but history has proven that the capitalist class wonāt relinquish power peacefully. They will utilize state violence to retain control of the state and to protect their private property.
USA is pretty much the most capitalist country in the world so thatās a lot of people that might die. But again, who gets to decide who will die (or be rehabilitated)? Cowbee?
Think of it this way: Systems vs Demographics
We as a society should never condone a system (government/CEOs/billionaires) killing a demographic (individual or group), like the death penalty. Because the system already has greater power and control.
However, the demographic should be able to kill or dismantle systems, especially when they feel threatened by those with power.
So āthe peopleā can take the lives of the rich into their hands, but the rich canāt take the lives of āthe peopleā into their hands. Ideally.
Which is why itās okay to be pro assassination of a CEO, but not pro death penalty of a serial killer. Government (system) sanctioned murder (of a demographic) should never be okay.
How would I know, it hasnāt happened yet. You think youāre asking an ethical question, but youāre basically asking a historical question about the future. One canāt predict how violently the capitalists will react to a socialist revolution in an indeterminate future moment that becomes ripe for one.
How many people will die if US monopoly capitalismāotherwise known as imperialism[1]ācontinues? Because lately itās been killing by the millions.
Class is about relation to the Means of Production, not simple wealth. The US is largely made up of labor aristocracy who benefit from Imperialism, like you pointed out, but arenāt bourgeoisie.
Secondly, putting people to death isnāt the goal, changing property relations is. Adventurism is cool to see, but doesnāt actually change anything.
Itās, again, a relation to production. Capital Owners, ie business owners and whatnot, are bourgeoisie. I suggest reading the first section in my introductory Marxist reading list.
