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"I don't know who needs to hear this but you are not a capitalist. You are a salaried employee working in an industry owned by an actual capitalist. People keep confusing simple commerce-- which has always existed--with capitalism, a specific type of economy." — Bree Newsome
capitalism likes to pretend it invented trading a thing for a thing
not capitalism: me trading some tomatoes with my neighbor, who trades me some honey back
Also not capitalism: me selling you a painting (which I'll do btw)
Capitalism: me invading my neighbor's yard, declaring all her shit mine, and offering her the opportunity to groom and harvest crops for me, which I will then sell and give her a portion of the profits.
Capitalism isn't even the only way to have a business. It's just the production method we are most familiar with.
@interneteh This is why we need to be making the worker's coop model as widespread and well-known as possible. So many people just assume that the only way to start a small business is by becoming a petty bourgeois, and I honestly wonder how many people genuinely started out wanting to help their communities but became increasingly exploitative because they thought their only option was to compete in a market where only the cruelest survive
@socalledunitedstates I don't even know if it's an answer to every problem necessarily, but I do know "fire your boss" is something people can wrap their heads around
@interneteh marx spends about ten pages in Capital yelling this
@melissasage well, I guess it's been going on for a while then.
@interneteh my gf just found this and it reminded me of this conversation. sex worker twitter is rife with communism.
@fr33l0 sex workers are more advanced than other workers cuz they have already seized the means
@interneteh they've been on the front lines since forever, since before marxism, and marxists still try and discount their work, both monetary and idealistic, as "immoral bourgeoisie decadance that must be snuffed out" smgdh
@fr33l0 anyone who talks about "decadence" is fascist in their soul
@interneteh lmao, srsly tho!
@interneteh Filth is my politics! Filth is my life!
@interneteh @fr33l0
My utopia is definitely decadence for all.