Message from @Mawk

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2017-05-17 18:59:02 UTC  

finish it rn

2017-05-17 18:59:16 UTC  

Cake

2017-05-17 18:59:23 UTC  

bourgeoisie can be petit bourgeois, self employed or regular bourgeois (that doesnt have to work himself)

2017-05-17 18:59:40 UTC  

and proletariat has a subclass labor aristocracy

2017-05-17 18:59:53 UTC  

which are priveleged workers who work for wage but they live in better conditions

2017-05-17 18:59:58 UTC  

so basically

2017-05-17 19:00:11 UTC  

petit bourgeois can live poorer than labor aristocracy

2017-05-17 19:00:22 UTC  

would bill gates be the ultimate bourgeois?

2017-05-17 19:00:27 UTC  

poor peasant can live way worse life than high qualified worker on a factory

2017-05-17 19:00:37 UTC  

i dont know much about him

2017-05-17 19:00:39 UTC  

but basically

2017-05-17 19:00:46 UTC  

there can be bourgeois with proletarian interests

2017-05-17 19:00:52 UTC  

and proletarian with bourgeois interests

2017-05-17 19:01:16 UTC  

when poor peasant goes on war with kulaks and whiteguards, he is following proletarian interests

2017-05-17 19:01:20 UTC  

even if he is petit bourgeois

2017-05-17 19:01:43 UTC  

when worker of USA joins army to invade vietnam or any other country that was invaded by the US

2017-05-17 19:01:49 UTC  

he is proletarian who follows bourgeois interests

2017-05-17 19:01:51 UTC  

@Garlic the Soviet that is true. There was millions of petite-burgs joining Soviet Party.

2017-05-17 19:02:16 UTC  

On the basis of low income

2017-05-17 19:02:18 UTC  

you are not ultimately rich parasite that needs to die if you are bourgeois, and you are not the ultimate hero revolutionary if you are proletarian

2017-05-17 19:02:27 UTC  

what do you guys think about dudes that own porsches?

2017-05-17 19:02:39 UTC  

i think they are mostly scum

2017-05-17 19:02:48 UTC  

but that depends i think

2017-05-17 19:02:53 UTC  

some people are just fooled

2017-05-17 19:03:11 UTC  

if you live in a priviliged imperialist country you can simply be not aware of why you live such a good life

2017-05-17 19:03:25 UTC  

its hard to blame someone for not knowing something

2017-05-17 19:03:48 UTC  

people in imperialist countries would be more revolutionary if they would see the exploitation of 3rd world out of their window

2017-05-17 19:03:51 UTC  

@Mawk one life cost 15.000$ That is the cost of a surgery for heart for the newborn in China. When I see somebody driving a 150.000$ car I shake.

2017-05-17 19:04:54 UTC  

what do you guys think about the neolib argument that states that opening up these factories in third world countries actually improves the quality of life when compared to what they would have been doing before (subsistence farming)?

2017-05-17 19:05:06 UTC  

You can drive 15.000 car and save lives

2017-05-17 19:06:57 UTC  

@Mawk that is true

2017-05-17 19:07:23 UTC  

but isn't that just furthering exploitation?

2017-05-17 19:07:57 UTC  

@Mawk if you are exploited it doesn't mean you are living worse than before.

2017-05-17 19:08:36 UTC  

It only means they take your work, energy, input for free

2017-05-17 19:09:02 UTC  

Its free to them and it cost your time and health.

2017-05-17 19:09:40 UTC  

i get that but what about the moral implications? should a developed country seek to improve living conditions in a country even if it means exploitation or leave them as it be?

2017-05-17 19:11:03 UTC  

@Mawk it is not a question of a will of the "developed" country. If you already robbed half of the world than you probably considered developed, yes?

2017-05-17 19:12:21 UTC  

Its like you are surprised a thief has more gold than the victim of his

2017-05-17 19:12:35 UTC  

i think you're misunderstanding what i'm saying

2017-05-17 19:13:07 UTC  

the neolib argument is saying that opening up factories in a place like china is raising the standard of living for those working in the factories

2017-05-17 19:13:12 UTC  

@Mawk I think you misunderstand the sequence of actions. First you rob, than you are "developed"