Just quoting stanzas from State and Revolution?

  • Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    Aristocrats’ positions rested on divine mandate, so a religious scolding could be a weak spot for them. There is no equivalent with capitalists - unless you selectively quote bourgeois economists they respect, to undermine their confidence and make their stocks plummet or something like that? At least some of them are high on their own supply.

    I would say the equivalent of warding them off with crucifixes and such, would be shows of solidarity, successful strikes, etc.
    The equivalent of their being unable to cross moving water would be those places and things they haven’t figured out how to recuperate or marketize.
    The restoration of their mortality and soul is expropriation and reeducation
    Stake/beheading/mouthful of wafers is the wall and barbara-pit
    Sunlight is the social revolution praise-it

    • LisaTrevor [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      no see, peasant revolts and strikes actually work, we’re looking for purely symbolic gestures that merely seem like they might hurt some moral foundation of the ruling class

      just like using the divine as a means for criticizing the aristocracy was a fool’s errand since it implicitly accepted their own framework as true, we must also find something equally ineffective that underpins the bourgeoisie’s belief in having earned their place

      the myth of productivity and hard work ethic seems like the obvious place to start. every billionaire has a rags to riches story and mythologizes how many sleepless nights they spent building their company up from nothing, working 80 hours weeks while eating ramen and never showering or whatever bullshit