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1. Mads "Magna Cinaeda" Viande (byttyrs@radical.town)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2019 10:48:21 EDT Mads "Magna Cinaeda" Viande

   the bourgeois push the narrative that "no-one will work for free" (food, housing, leisure, infrastucture by and for workers/dependents = "for free") because they won't lift a fucking finger for anything that won't make them a profit. fuck that. selfishness isn't "human nature," it's a bourgeois class value

   1. Mads "Magna Cinaeda" Viande (byttyrs@radical.town)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2019 10:59:59 EDT Mads "Magna Cinaeda" Viande

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      I'm skeptical that "human nature" exists as such, but if it does and we could theoretically discover its properties, we would still have huge methodological problems untangling "human nature" from external conditions.

      but selfish, brutal, grasping competition for short-term gain with no regard to common good or the long-term future? that's literally a direct product of capitalism. zero-sum profit-hoarding from underpaying exploited workers is the fundamental M.O. of the bourgeois/capitalist/owning class.

      the people whose wealth goes into printing educational materials have a vested interest in making their class-specific motives and behaviors disappear into the generality of "human nature." that's what 'false class consciousness' IS: the working class, duped into accepting the sins and values of their oppressors.