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Quote by: The Dunedan Yeah, Gorgo, what's the deal? Shouldn't you turn ownership of those apartments over to those tenants and abolish their rents, per Marx? What's a Communist doing as a LANDLORD, of all things? Sounds like a petty-bourgois poser, to me. |
A socialist can still run businesses under capitalism. Robert Owen ran succesful Co-Ops that actually turned good profits, he just used the profits to the benefit of the workers, by raising their wages, providing decent housing, building schools for their kids etc
As for communists, they can still run businesses under capitalism too. It is the system as a whole they oppose, they dislike co-ops for being utopian and not dealing with the real problems. While capitalism is still present, it is neccesary for everyone, inc. communists, to have an income, a condition they object to. For a communist, closing a single business or not being part of one in order to achieve communism would be like trying to kill a horse by pulling a hair out of it's tail.