What are they conceding exactly?
Things that benefit the working class: Labor protection, minium wages, free education, etc. Without these things greater profits would be made. And every capitalist country slowly removes these benefits until major uprisings.
And every capitalist country slowly removes these benefits until major uprisings.
We figured out a long time ago that there’s only two things people need in order to keep them happy:
Bread and Circuses.
As long as people have food on their table and a source of entertainment you can take everything else away and they’ll be content enough to not revolt.
But it’s important to not take everything else away at once either, that’s why they chisel away at them until only those two are left.That’s not entirely true.
Capitalism itself is unsustainable, so as time goes on, the temp rises towards the boiling point. Bread and circuses delay this boiling point, but do not stop it. As long as the temperature continues to rise, so to speak, so too will the boiling point be approached.
I thought it was taking about concession stand concessions, and was really confused as to how they were vital to the bourgeois patching capitalism. Now I’m more confused.
our willingness to tolerate it
Need more context, pal.
Wage Labor and Capital is a good start.
I will never read theory, stop trying to make me read theory
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Greed along with the lack of scruples
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What’s unclear?
What concessions?
Any kinds of social programs, generally, are concessions.
Our tax money when they inevitably screw a whole market over. So socialism
Edit: you all think I’m shitting on socialism, when I guess I was failing to tie together how capitalists will enjoy socializing their loses, but never socializing benefits to society.
Socialism is not the government giving money to capitalists. It is not paying for the cops to get tanks. It is not having an army.
It is not even universal healthcare. That is just a government service you’ve been gaslit into thinking is socialism.
Socialism is the workers owning the means of production. End.
Now, if the government had bailed out the financial firms or car manufacturers and turned them into worker co-ops, maybe that would be socialism, but they didn’t.
I’m pro social programs, I just spoke poorly. “Socialism for me but not for thee” was what I should have said
