I like the part where the guy is like "Pssh, are you seriously saying wage labor wasn't a thing before capitalism?" and all the people who actually know history are just :yes-chad:
In a way I kinda feel sorry for them because I only started taking interest in the material reality of history after/as I became a socialist. Before that I had kind of internalised the Flintstones version of history where you have basically the same economic relations but with funny clothes.
Hahaha that's true I guess, at some point I started noticing how much fiction that takes place in the past basically has capitalism but dressed as feudalism
RPGs and fantasy video games are a frequent offender in this. Every village and outpost has a fully functioning commodity market, complete with globally equalised prices and stable currency, neatly divisible by 100 for copper/silver/gold.
I fucking hate reddit. It's just pedantic assholes all the way down.
"you say capitalism created wage labor, but technically a small handful of people in the middle ages experienced something that could possibly under the right circumstances be described as wage labor if you squint, so you're 100% wrong about everything! I'm very smart!"
Too true. I even knew I was opening myself to this pedantic bullshit when I wrote my comment, but I'm just beyond caring at this point. I'm not twisting my language in a pretzel to appease :reddit-logo: dorks.
lmfao
Son, I am disappoint
When you definitely understand capitalism and its relationship to bourgeois "democracy"
I like the part where the guy is like "Pssh, are you seriously saying wage labor wasn't a thing before capitalism?" and all the people who actually know history are just :yes-chad:
In a way I kinda feel sorry for them because I only started taking interest in the material reality of history after/as I became a socialist. Before that I had kind of internalised the Flintstones version of history where you have basically the same economic relations but with funny clothes.
Hahaha that's true I guess, at some point I started noticing how much fiction that takes place in the past basically has capitalism but dressed as feudalism
RPGs and fantasy video games are a frequent offender in this. Every village and outpost has a fully functioning commodity market, complete with globally equalised prices and stable currency, neatly divisible by 100 for copper/silver/gold.
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I fucking hate reddit. It's just pedantic assholes all the way down.
"you say capitalism created wage labor, but technically a small handful of people in the middle ages experienced something that could possibly under the right circumstances be described as wage labor if you squint, so you're 100% wrong about everything! I'm very smart!"
fuck off
Too true. I even knew I was opening myself to this pedantic bullshit when I wrote my comment, but I'm just beyond caring at this point. I'm not twisting my language in a pretzel to appease :reddit-logo: dorks.