• mayo_cider [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    And what you don’t seem to be understanding is that none of the money you invest or gain from those investments is going towards the revolution, it’s just stolen from other working class people

    Capital gains are antithetical to Marxism and I’ll fight anyone on this

    • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      it’s just stolen from other working class people

      True, but I’m not the one who stole it from them and no amount of investing will make it so that I am. It was already stolen, and nothing I have the power to do will return it to its rightful owners. However, any value I can extract from it is a little more in the hands of the working class that it was stolen from and a little less in the hands of the ruling class who stole it. That is the least harmful thing I have the power to do with regard to the value tied up in the stock market.