• ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml
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    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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              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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                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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        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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        Money to commodity to (more) money, which is a simplification of capital accumulation, as described in capital vol 1