I am going to recommend a book to you. Doing Good Better by William MacAskil. It is not a work of right wing “intellectuals”. It is a book I think may cause you to rethink things. In exchange, I will read any book you recommended, Marxist or otherwise.
Re:The human cost of the Kindle
by knuththetruth on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:25AM
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I’m aware of the rehabilitations of the Effective Altruism movement and find their arguments unconvincing. Not to mention entirely the product of right-wing TINA thinking.
Am I right in assuming you consider communist revolution the only solution? Just so you know it is unlikely you will be the Stalin of that eventuality, just one more of his slaves.
Re:The human cost of the Kindle
by knuththetruth on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:12AM
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No, not at all. I believe in democracy and its potential for transformation above all, just as a fundamental right in the workplace/economy, in addition to government.
From paying labor less than it’s worth and keeping the difference for yourself.
People use sweatshop labor because they can steal even more of the value created by these worker’s labor, knowing there’s not a damn thing they can do about it. And they’ve done so for so long, amassed so much wealth, that they now can pay for boatloads of “intellectuals” to justify their exploitation as good and necessary, leading to us having this conversation now.