In dialectics contradictions are not resolved by eliminating the opposing pole(s), but by including them in a broader concept that allows them to freely circulate each other. For example the contradiction in is resolved by the existence of business: despite their contradictory interests in distributing the profits, both the worker and the boss are interested in the success of the venture, since both of their survival depend on it.
What are the contradictions of capitalism?
James Hughes
Grayson Wood
tenants, landlords, and the rentier system are all remnants of feudalism so if that's what you mean than yes
Hunter Gomez
What are the contradictions of those?
Aaron Anderson
landlords (any really anyone in real estate) profit off of property by the simple fact that they claim legal ownership of it without actually performing any labor. They generate revenue for themselves by demanding rents from the people who actually live in the apartment, while doing their best to minimize costs(IE spending money to improve the rented property) which can easily be compared to the boss taking your surplus value. There's a reason why Adam Smith thought that landlords were scum and considered them the last remnants of a backwards economic system that was based on feudal ideas of land ownership
Juan Morales
We all know the rentier class has been the enemy of civilization since it started, but what is the contradiction here? It seems like driving people into debt peonage so they can buy up all their land and extract even more value from their labor actually worked out pretty well for them.
Lucas Price
It doesn't. Post discarded.
Easton Adams
Agreed, all landlords are scum/ propriety is theft.
My grandma rents a room to a couple for actually a "small price", little does she know she is a porky exploiting the proletariat. She should either let them live there for free or not at all!(to bad she needs the rent money to buy meds so she won't die haha).
Samuel Watson
It is the definitively adversarial relationship between renter and landlord. Their inherently opposed interests places each in perpetual conflict with the other (renters seek lower rents and better maintainance of their homes while landlords seeks higher rents and lower overhead), and this opposition can only be resolved by their eventual categorical destruction and replacement by something different.
Noah Davis
Found the actual problem.
Jordan Reed
But do you seek a spiritual revolution by political means?
The problem with this, as Ret'd Col. Michael Aquino (and Temple of Set founder) once said, is "things get very evil very quickly."
Nothing to say you shouldn't learn the runes, do some yoga, etc. - more power to you.
But personally, I'm in favour of a "value neutral" material revolution.
The only proviso being not exploiting anyone else, then you can do what you want.
You'd need a framework, of course.
perhaps after the defeat of "platform capitalism" we could just use retooled Uber tech! Just apply a fresh lick of retro-futurist/Russian Cosmist paint while removing exploitation.it's just one idea. When you feel like going on a road trip, just log on, see what interesting people want to go with you, or what boring people who who you can nevertheless bring out of their shell. No need to "embrace the grind" as Uber drivers presently say, you just go on the road when you *really* only want to.
Stirner's an empty vessel. "There is nothing more to me than myself." I think that's one of his lines. yrs but what is yourself mister? there's a philosophical P. O. V. which says we're like cells, cells in a bigger organism:
."..the theory that the organelles inside eukaryotic cells were once independent creatures before later becoming subordinate components of the unified cell… One of the highlights of this theory…is its suggestion that the gradual shaping of the gene pool through natural selection is a less important evolutionary force that the watershed symbioses of distinct organisms. The idea has obvious value beyond the sphere of evolutionary biology: in human biography, for instance.We find that the key moments in a human life rarely result from introspective brooding in one's private chambers. Instead, they happen most often through symbiosis with a person, a profession, an institution, a city, a favourite author, a religion, or in some other life-changing bond. Even in those cases where great events do happen inside one's private head, this takes the form of symbiosis with a crucial idea or decision to which one is henceforth dedicated Despite the co-operative -sounding etymology of the term, symbiosis is often non-reciprocal: it is easy to recognize moving to Cairo in the year 2000 as a turning point in my own life, without being tempted by narcissistic delusions that Egypt's storied capital entered a new stage upon my arrival." (P.45-6)
"… symbiotic change is not always a question of human devotion, since it affects even the lazy shuffler who may not remain faithful to the love affair, religious conversion, political revolution, or business merger he has perhaps entered irreversibly anyway.."(p.47-8)
Graham Harman, Immaterialism