• Urist@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    It is a classification of the mode of production. However, you are quite right in saying that property relations for the proletariat are not fundamentally different under capitalism than, say, feudal society.

    One can as such absolutely draw a parallel between a serf and a wage labourer in this regard, but equivocating the two, like you do, is utter nonsense.

    Similarly, using this parallel to conclude that we are not living under a predominantly capital mode of production is rubbish, justifying the recommendation of reading.

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      1 month ago

      No i was genuinely asking to point out a formation of society that reflected your stated values, and the book which i can read about it in. Im saying every society that i am aware of, no matter the title, had a ruling class leaching off the working class. We as humans have yet to develop that classless society despite 100 years of people drooling and killing over communist theory. I just thought you it was odd you said to read a book, like you’ve already read them all for me and still seem pretty impotent when it comes to forming that society. Maybe Marx failed to grasp the human condition idk. Seems like every attempt leaves a murderous upperclass in-charge of a lower class. I can point you to some interesting books on the topic.

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        1 month ago

        The read a book part was probably overly dismissive, but was a pointer to marxist theory that is materialist and not idealist.

        Im saying every society that i am aware of, no matter the title, had a ruling class leaching off the working class.

        This is why workers need their own revolution. Capitalism and most western states, particularly the US, came to be through bourgeoise revolutions. Causality wise, this followed due to technological advancements improving the productionary forces.

        We as humans have yet to develop that classless society despite 100 years of people drooling and killing over communist theory.

        No state has yet made it past the intermediary stage of this development. That does not mean they were not on the right track. The killing part is horrible, but follows from the armed resistance of capital. Violence is a part of every political system, it is just happening in ways not usually recognized.