No. It isn't a contradiction. Find me someone who has similar beliefs as mine and show me how they live outside of Kapitalism and I'll show you a miracle. Or a liar.
I know that, unless you live in a non-capitalist society such as Korea or Cuba then all people live within the capitalist system, in so far as they live, work and function within it.
Even what counts as the working class in Marxist terms has to buy food, rent housing and work for firms that operate according to the concept of private control over the means of production for profit.
I'm not a Marxist, a anarchist or a socialist of any sort, as you would know if you have read my other posts on U75. But if we use Marxist or anarchist-communist terminology, there is a difference between the classes of worker (proletarian) and those who have control over the means of production (bourgeois).
You clearly fall into the latter category, you don't just eanr a living by 'selling your labour' but you have actual control over the services your firm offers and you have the right and power to hire and fire those who work for you, which in Marxist/anarchist terms is the key to how capitalists use their power to 'oppress' the working class.
I myself don't follow this view of the world, but since you hold those beliefs, I'll play devils advocate and use them for me to make my point.
What I do for a living is, mostly, irrelevant to my ideas and beliefs.
Personally I can agree to that, but ideologies that oppose capitalism use economics as the measure of society and both Marxists and anarchists would argue that your class determines what side your on, "being determines consciousness" as Karl Marx put it.
Of course there can always be quirks and exceptions, like Engles and his ownership of a textile factory, but as a whole, class is the deciding factor for the far left in who is on what side of the 'class war/conflict'.
I come from a large housing scheme (council estate) on the southside of Glasgow, lived on an even larger estate in a major southern [English] seaport. My mum pulled pints for a living. My dad was a sailor and then a publican. Am I 'bourgeois'? Am I defined by my roots?
According to the ideology you yourself support, a person's class is not determined by what their parents did or the conditions they were brought up in, but what role they have when they work, in relation to the means of production (who has to sell their labour to survive and who controls the means of production and services).
Richard Branson and John Major both came from and grew up in poor working class backgrounds, yet they through their working life went to the top.
Or is your sole criteria for suggesting I'm 'bourgeois' based on my job? Odd.
Look, I'm am not personally having a go at you or anything, I don't personally know you so I am not to judge.
I also personally have nothing against you based on your job, that would be stupid. Like I said, I'm no left winger so for me there is no problem with what you do for a living.
I am just genuinely curious as to your career and how they fit in with your beliefs. The only reason I am curious is simply because both anarchism and Marxism have very narrow and defined views of humans, much like fascist and nationalist ideologies, they don't see humans or judge them as individuals and look at each person and value him/her according to their own merit or what they have done in life, but simply lump whole groups of people into categories and base them and judge them according to their category. For the far left it is class and the far right it is race, religion or a persons sexual orientation, the category may vary, but the same ideal is implied that humans are not beings in their own right but merely a digit in a much larger group.
All I am saying is that you support a ideology that lumps you as the 'enemy' so to speak, how is it that you deal with that or even go along with it. Again I don't mean to judge, just generally curious.
Also on a last note, given your 'class' background and that of your family and how you have since done well for yourself and how you are now a company director, does that and your own personal experience of that not actually sway you to the idea that people can do well for themselves if they try and work at it. A good example of social mobility is it not?
Just asking as you said your experiences as a young guy when things were not so good, molded your political beliefs and I am curious to know if your success now may have in any way convinced you otherwise?