Thursday, April 5, 2018

Master-slave dialectic in crapitalism and what to do about it

Wolff discusses Hegel's treatise on the master-slave dialectic, and how it operates in capitalism. The master depends on the slaves to do his bidding, so when the slaves revolt it upsets this dialectic. We see it happening now with teachers striking and students demonstrating against gun violence. We need to rise up people and fight back against our monied masters if we want the system to change. And yes, it will incur some costs and self-sacrifice, but would you rather be a slave?

Wolff instructs that overcoming crapitalism requires "the democratization of a cooperative community organization of work [...] with residential and neighborhood communities where we live."

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