The Deprogram Podcast

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International Anti-Capitalist podcast run by an American, Slav and an Arab.

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For those of you wondering, this is why JT needs more money to keep running his channel (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Feeling exploited is not the issue… or do you think if every worker had the same conditions of Facebook employees everything would be fine? If that’s the case you are not a communist, but a social democrat.

Also hilarious for a leftist to say an employer is PROVIDING a living to their workers. When all value is produced by the workers. JT is not giving anyone the privilege of a job, he is exploiting the labor of others. That is a technical idea within capitalism, not a moral one. Exploitation is not “evil” is just how capitalism works.

And paying salaries and selling a product are not “capitalism”. It’s the structure of the business, the owners and laborers.

And like I said, if you are born to privilege, giving it up for “the cause” is stupid. It’s better to use the privilege to forward the cause. Like Engels. But striving and fighting to BECOME part of the owner class as a communist is nonsensical, unless being a communist is just a grift for you.