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Is it contradictory to run an anti-capitalist business? Is it inevitable to fail under capitalism? And what would it look like under socialism?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What does an anticapitalist business look like? Is that not a contradiction in terms?

Plenty of businesses run with radlib aesthetics, or even sell leftist literature/stickers/merch.

Capitalism is happy to subsume anticapitalist aesthetics into the structure of capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's why im asking. I don't know if it's contradictory.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Contradictions are a natural occurrence in society. You can't build communism within capitalism neatly like that, but it doesn't inherently mean that those contradictions are bad, or make the person doing them automatically bad. Which is why it depends on the context. For instance, is it a real estate agency that has the hammer and sickle on the logo, or is it more like an actual communist literature bookshop? I think this question is more interesting than the vagueness of contradiction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I see. Thank you

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