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by thiagoharry 717 days ago
So, do you think that there is not a conflict between labor and capital, where the first is provided by workers that want to be well paid, and the second having the objective of growth and reproduction, and so wants to minimize coasts like salaries? I see this conflict happening a lot when workers begin a labor strike, or when company owners do union busting and anti-union activities. When for the workers, the ideal percentage of unemployment should be 0%, but for capital owners, it should be higher, or the labor price becomes too high. I think there are lots of examples of conflicts between labor and capital.

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_th...
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aristofun 717 days ago
There is a conflict, this one and many others.

And also there are not only conflicts but mutual interests.

And also all of it differs drastically from type of industry, country, culture, type of company, current macroeconomic situation, political regime etc etc.

This is nothing but wishful thinking and malicious ignorance to take 1 of many factors and build an ideology on it.

And ideology that eventually can not solve a single problem it intended to solve.

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thiagoharry 715 days ago
Even if you don't believe that the main contradiction in capitalism is between capital and labor, all the points made by OP are still valid: the book shows how small ideas have big consequences and that the whole is bigger than the sums of parts.

You know, you do not need to agree with a philosopher to learn things with him. The main point of philosophy is being able to understand ideas from different thinkers and learn something with them, even in cases where you do not agree much with them. Moreover, Marx is one of the most influential thinkers in the XIX century. You lose a lot when you let your ideology dictates what kind of ideas or books you are not allowed to explore or if you let these things creates a strawman that do not let you think objectively about some ideas.

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aristofun 715 days ago
Stop calling him a thinker.

He is no more “thinker” than hitler.

Do you learn a lot from hitler?

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