Subject and object
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- For subject and object in linguistics, see Morphosyntactic alignment.
Subject and object, in Unification Thought, two relative positions of beings in relationship. Ideally, they engage in give and take action in a mutually beneficial way, centered upon a common base. Through this cooperation comes all the energy needed for existence and multiplication, and larger beings may thereby be formed.
The Unification Thought idea of subject and object contrasts markedly with the Marxist idea of thesis and antithesis. Karl Marx posited that progress comes when the latter overcomes or destroys the former. Reverend Moon, on the other hand, asserts that progress comes via the cooperation between the two parties or beings.
For example, in a commercial transaction, a buyer (subject) and seller (object) settle on a deal in which the buyer gives money to the seller, and the seller provides goods or services to the buyer. If the deal is mutually satisfying, it may be repeated, perhaps indefinitely, to the benefit of both parties.
The Marxist analysis asserts that commerce is coercive or corrupt, on the grounds that producers exploit laborers and that the profit they make by selling manufactured products should go entirely to the laborers (see labor theory of value).