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[–] 16 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

I believe doing what you can to keep yourself afloat and release yourself to be able to radicalize and organize those around you is an important goal. We can fall prey to ultra leftism and stunt our own progress by trying to maintain "purity", and be "exploitation free."

It's a matter of scale. You can be a small time landlord and it would be nowhere near as bad as a large property management conglomerate. You're still not safe. Same for investing. Study theory, make praxis, and don't fall into opportunism.

I'm leaving this up, I misread the question lol you'd be the petitest of bourgeois! Lol extra points if you find a way to reinvest your dividends and complete the M-C-M cycle. Hahaha

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Also, are you saying that one can be a landlord while also being a communist?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You could even own a factory.... Lol

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And at the same time write the most important communist piece in history!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    But wouldn't owning factories make you a class traitor?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    The person I was aiming at is Engels, who came from a factory owning family. He did not technically completely own a factory (without going into too much details) but he was still born in a bourgeoisie family and profited off the labor of others. You could call Engels a class traitor for this but he still wrote some of the most important communist theory out there. Sometimes it's not that black and white.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    But wouldn't that make someone a class traitor?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I meant that isn't being a communist factory owner immoral?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Being a class traitor in the Marxist sense is understood to be good if they are betraying the Bourgeoisie. The position on the Left in general is siding with the Proletariet (workers) against the Bourgeoisie (the owners of the means of production)

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Money -> Commodity -> (more) Money If this is your primary means of making money, you are a captialist.

    Commodity (often labor) -> Money -> Commodity (stuff you need to live) If this is your means of making money primarily, you are proletariet.

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