What are you talking about? You have to be a moron to not think it's in your rational self interest to join a subversive movement, attempt to overthrow the government, after which you either get sent to prison or fight in a bitter civil war - and assuming you're both victorious (and not purged by a rival faction that holds slightly different interpretation of what Marx meant), you might have a chance at owning the means of production (if you're part of the committee appoint by the Party to oversee the factory you formerly worked at)
People doing bad things is due to capitalism because under the reign of the hypothetical idyll of socialism they...
Genetic determinism is bunk, my Nazi friend.
OP please put your thoughts in a single post, this is not a fast board.
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Show me a law molecule. I'll wait.
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If you're going to deduce rational self-interest from nature, that's what you're getting. If not, explain to me how you determine what rational self-interest is.
A (cargo cult) dialectical materialism manicheanism is manicheanism none the less.
Tell me, why is the use of under to describe man and his world so peculiar to marxists?
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I'll become one with the Big Other, and will therefor own the means production even when materially rotting away in an unnamed grave.
Holla Forums isn't one person, so you may find my opinion is not consistent with other posters'.
Capitalists always act exclusively in their self-interest, which they like to boast about on television. Whether a capitalist decides to fire workers, reduce their pay, increase their hours, use slave labor in the third world, fund death squads in Central and South America, or anything else is for him exclusively a question of whether it is profitable. Morality or anything doesn't factor into his decisions. And why should it? After all, the capitalists argue, they have a right to act in their rational self-interest—a rational organism is strictly concerned with the logical solution to a problem, and while considering the feelings or rights of others is nice, it is an altruistic behavior and therefore illogical. The capitalists argue that if we only rule our society by self-interest, then everything will naturally work out well.
So if there isn't a double standard here, it is just as valid for the working class to adopt this thought process.