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-19 points

17 days ago

So who gets to decide?

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27 points

17 days ago

It’s, 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.

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slartibartfast@lemm.ee

-22 points

17 days ago

Except others above are literally calling the middle class bourgeoisie.

Maybe you should all start reading, because it’s obvious this community isn’t politically savvy enough to understand the words it throws around.

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17 points

17 days ago

What do you mean “middle class is bourgeoisie?”

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davel@lemmy.mlOP

19 points

17 days ago

One other person in this post said that, therefore everyone in the post is stupid, except for slartibartfast.

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11 points

17 days ago

Yep, seriously confusing behavior.

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-23 points

17 days ago

So business owners must die got you. If I do some freelancing sometimes, should I kill myself? Asking for a friend.

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noscere@sh.itjust.works

26 points

17 days ago

if I do some freelancing sometimes, should I kill myself? Asking for a friend.

It seems that you are intentionally missing the point. If you are selling your own labor, you my friend are working class.

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-14 points

16 days ago

You guys are all really smart and interesting, seriously, but I’m still not convince one can just decide to kill a CEO because he considers them to be part of the bourgeoisie. My original question, is who gets to decided where to draw the line.

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11 points

16 days ago

No, I literally stated that the goal isn’t to kill people, but collectivize property. If your only way of dealing with alternative viewpoints is to lie about them, then you should reconsider your own viewpoints.

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-9 points

16 days ago

My comment was going back to the original question: if it’s ok to kill this CEO, who decided who else it’s ok to kill.

My problem is that, while I fully agree that capitalism is the principal cause of injustice in the modern world, taking justice into one’s own hands through violence will only lead to more violence. The day citizens as a whole are ready for a real social revolution, I might re-evaluate my position on violence, but the majority of US voters have just elected, again, Epstein’s closest friend as president so I doubt that what they want is a way out of capitalism.

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MonkeMischief@lemmy.today

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1 point

16 days ago

I agree with you somewhat and I don’t like how much downvote spam you’re getting. You bring up some good points we ought to be mindful of.

Right now it seems very clear who the oppressors are, but the scary thing about reactive movements is that even if they accomplish their goal, they tend to seek to justify themselves indefinitely before everyone gets bored and it dissolves.

Everybody wants a revolution on paper, but things get messy and blurry once the powder keg goes off, and people en masse would be looking for the next enemy, the next oppressor, that must be hunted down to finally secure Utopia.

While I’m an anarchist and want the “ownership class” to answer for their wicked ways, I also don’t think a bunch of independent actors picking targets and gunning them down based solely on their own justification is an ideal solution. Even if I understand why it happens and don’t defend the perpetrators that push people to such extremes in the first place.

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