What are they conceding exactly?
Things that benefit the working class: Labor protection, minium wages, free education, etc. Without these things greater profits would be made. And every capitalist country slowly removes these benefits until major uprisings.
And every capitalist country slowly removes these benefits until major uprisings.
We figured out a long time ago that there's only two things people need in order to keep them happy:
Bread and Circuses.
As long as people have food on their table and a source of entertainment you can take everything else away and they'll be content enough to not revolt.
But it's important to not take everything else away at once either, that's why they chisel away at them until only those two are left.
I thought it was taking about concession stand concessions, and was really confused as to how they were vital to the bourgeois patching capitalism. Now I'm more confused.
our willingness to tolerate it
Greed along with the lack of scruples
Our tax money when they inevitably screw a whole market over. So socialism
Edit: you all think I'm shitting on socialism, when I guess I was failing to tie together how capitalists will enjoy socializing their loses, but never socializing benefits to society.
Socialism is not the government giving money to capitalists. It is not paying for the cops to get tanks. It is not having an army.
It is not even universal healthcare. That is just a government service you've been gaslit into thinking is socialism.
Socialism is the workers owning the means of production. End.
Now, if the government had bailed out the financial firms or car manufacturers and turned them into worker co-ops, maybe that would be socialism, but they didn't.
I'm pro social programs, I just spoke poorly. "Socialism for me but not for thee" was what I should have said
How does that work when all of the production happens in other countries now? Is there some scenario where we have a socialist white collar economy? All the rhetoric surrounding Communism fits a blue collar economy where production is still the key driver of the economy. Most "1st world" economies these days are service economies not production economies. Is there some literature on how Communism fits in with a service economy?
