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I'm truly not accusing leftists of anything. I'm using this Socratic method to try to get you to recognize that all of the plebeians don't have the kind of leve
by mangeletti 10y ago
I'm truly not accusing leftists of anything. I'm using this Socratic method to try to get you to recognize that all of the plebeians don't have the kind of leverage to create such a future, and that the wealthy elite (read 1%) have been using the promise of "luxury communism" as a means of pitting the bottom 70% of income earners against the next 29% of income earners, in an effort to hold tightly onto their hegemonies.
Think about it; why else would people like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates call for higher taxes on millionaires' income, while not giving up their own money to the treasury, and also not calling for taxes on people that already have billions of dollars? Because they want to keep anybody else from getting close to where they are[1]
In other words, I am on neither side, nor in the middle.
1. The 48 Laws of Power. It explains this concept of using the bottom to hold down the middle, among many others.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoSince when were Buffet and Gates communists, of either the anarchist or Marxist varieties? They're liberals. They're capitalists. They're second on the list of the working class's enemies, right after the oil barons and landlords.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoCuriously the 100,000 people working jobs created by Gates might call it a different relationship than 'enemy'
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoOr they might say straightforwardly that Gates exploits their labor-power and also exploits the general public as an abusive monopolist. You'd have to ask the workers instead of worshipping Gates.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoThanks, I worship as I please. But all the talk about exploitation is pretty thin, when Microsoft pays top rates for good talent.