I know these kinds of hypothetical questions are kind of boring, but I was curious what you guys that about this.

The situation is: I am a relatively wealthy person, with enough investment properties to rent out for income and live off. I decide to rent at a price below the market value and attempt to get tenants who are trying to live in the area but are not financially stable, so I can provide some sort of assistance by giving to them cheaper than they can get elsewhere.

I now don't have to work a single hour a day.

I use a full-time work schedule to do all of the following tasks (aside from other things like cooking, cleaning, exercise) (in no particular order):

  • Manage the properties I own
  • Study theory
  • Attempt various worker organisation activities/union activities
  • Participate in Communist Party meetings
  • Partake in Communist Party activities
  • Volunteer for numerous mutual aid groups
  • Protest
  • Write (online articles) and all the other sorts of activities. In other words, attempt to be a "professional revolutionary" as I believe Lenin put it.

Would this be a moral course of action? Or does living purely off the rent of workers outweigh dedicating basically my whole spare time to my nation's socialist movement?

Edit: Just for context I'm not actually in this position lol.

  • seitanicRights [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    All that income you get is the ossified labor value of your tenants. Even if you were a very excellent revolutionary, you wouldn't manage half the organization your tenants would if they didn't have to pay you a toll to live. Let's be real, you're a landlord so you're not. You're expropriating from the working class instead of the capitalist class, the latter having universally been the method of successful revolutionaries of history. Why not let them live rent free? Why not start a housing cooperative? Why not use that good will to educate and agitate them? Because it's easier to be a self-important parasite, and because society will bend over backward to validate you for it.

    Your hypothetical here is class collaboration, a fundamental tenet of fascism.