06-27-2014, 09:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2014, 10:46 PM by FireIceTalon.)
(06-27-2014, 09:40 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I realize that you actually don't know me at all. Nothing could be further from the truth. Perhaps you are actually looking into your own soul?
Is that so? Cause the comment of yours that I quoted was extremely elitist and discriminatory towards working class people; in fact it really reeked of the "blame the victim" narrative that is so predominant in this society. But I am assuming your actions are consistent with your words, perhaps, and hopefully, I am wrong in this instance.
As for me, if I hated working class people and viewed them with the merciless contempt that you did in your comment, it would pretty much revoke my right to being a card carrying communist. More importantly, as a member of the working class, self-loathing would be counter-intuitive to my own objective interests, would it not? You accusing me of what you are guilty of is plain silliness and a desperate attempt to wash your hands of it. Try harder.
And yes, capitalists view workers as valuable alright - so long as workers can work and produce as much value (hours worked and the end product) for as little cost (wages) as possible. Other than that, they are expendable from the pov of the capitalist, and nothing more than bodies used to maximize profits and increase capital accumulation. And this exploitation and objectification of an entire class of people is referred to by its advocates as "freedom" or "voluntary exchange". Yea, right.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)