Dear comrades, a while back I saw a post on Lemmy regarding the concessions given to European middle-class or proletariat of colonial powers in order to pacify them prevent revolutions in their own countries.
Anyone have the source for me?
Capital lays it all out in minute detail.
Every positive thing workers get from a bourgeoisie government is appeasement.
The bourgeoisie do not deserve what they have. They stole and murdered to obtain their initial capital that they call “primitive accumulation”. They exploit our labor and then give us pennies on the dollar and collude to keep wages low. Then they tell us to be grateful or they will find someone else. The government to help them with this by messing with interest rates to keep businesses from growing too fast so unemployment remains constant which makes it so they can replace workers who demand “too much”.
If they didn’t have to pay wages at all they wouldn’t. If we get 6 pennies instead of 5 that one extra penny is buying their own neck. Just like how slave states balanced the application of the whip to keep them from revolting, the capitalist system balances wages and social programs to keep the workers from striking and revolution.
I have always wanted to read capital, but it’s shear vastness has left me too scared to even try. Thx for this even though it wasn’t the one I was looking for.
Its a bit of a slog. I only got halfway though vol 2 and told myself its ok because Marx didn’t finish writing it either.
Volume 1 has some really good stuff in it but other parts are really dry.
I found the best way to understand the more technical parts was to listen to a chapter as an audio book and let it stwe in my brain for a bit. then follow along reading it on a second pass, and then do a 3rd listen followed by listening to the next chapter and so on.
That would make the process of going through even longer… But yeah you’re right, it’s like reading before a class and after class reading it again. Smart way
i imagine you’re probably looking for this. good read!
Hmm this one is about USA, the one in looking for is about European workers and their European Masters. But thank you non the less comrade, it was an interesting read
