Morning Comrades and welcome back to your second of two patreon-only dispatches this week. We are going to be talking about Greed today, somethigng I enjoy a great deal, but let me explain.
All too often my thoughts lead me to root cause analysis - Ursachenforschung in German, a term I enjoy great deal more from a linguistic point of view - to the observations I make, or at the very least try to make. The constant engagement between theory in praxis can in a way be described as an interaction between tactics and strategies - it’s one part dealing with immediate oppression in the most effective manner but that, in order for it to be successful in the long run, but without a root cause analysis for said oppression, understanding why the oppression takes place, a successful strategy becomes an impossibility.
Within my frame of thinking the ultimate root cause for all injustice is the concept of ownership, property if you like and that most definitely aligns with Marx’s work and secondly, it is Greed. Without a doubt, greed is a result of the concept of ownership but for one, we have discussed the concept of ownership and why it is the Manifesto’s core idea to remove it before, but we haven’t tackled Greed yet. I capitalize the word for a plethora of reasons, but predominately because it is such a vast and loaded subject. Again, I hugely enjoy milling over these ideas to help me understand my world and place better but additionally, it makes for wonderful and quite frankly useful insights for each one of us, to determine strategies to fight the elephant in the room, our current construct, capitalism.
With that we will be looking into Greed as an idea, it’s role in pre-capitalist realitiesm religions- satisfying my inner spiritualism - as well as the age old nonsense of greed as human nature and so forth. If anything, this is meant as brain food for you dear readers to take with you into the weekend and hopefully dig into. Enjoy.
"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."
1 Timothy 6:10 (New International Version)
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