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What exactly does it mean to say "The bourgeois are not human?" (hexbear.net)

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I recognize that it's speaking to an underlying emotional truth - something I've known on a gut level for a while now but can't quite put my finger on. I know it's not, as I've seen liberals argue, that it's an excuse to legitimize violence against them (their own violence is all the justification one needs) or some kind of "No True Scotsman" argument. There's something deeper and more fundamental, something to do with how the nature of their class position causes them to set themselves apart from and above the vast majority of humanity. Anyone who can help me put this into words?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The economics, that is, the distribution of material goods, of human societies have always been tied to the tribal, societal and communal aspects, whether it was in primitive hunter-gatherers tribes, early agricultural civilizations, the slave economy of the ancient societies, or the feudal system during the Medieval period. There has always been a human component rooted in the sociopolitical and economic arrangements even among class societies.

The bourgeois revolution of the 18th century was a watershed moment that completely transformed human societies beyond all recognition and severed this crucial link between a society and its economy. Bourgeois capitalism transcends and repudiates the human relationships that have embedded within the societal framework for thousands of years, in pursuit of endless accumulation of capital. A completely new form of societal arrangement emerged following the Industrial Revolution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

This is seen daily in the US as people who are not sufficiently useful to the regime are cast out, unhoused, sickened, and socially murdered. But because it's "their own fault" there are huge segments of the labor aristocracy who not as quietly as you might expect wish they would be cast into the meat grinder at a higher velocity.