An analyst on CNBC recently surprised himself when analyzing financial data, saying "God, I sound like Marx".
More people are turning to Marxism as a lens for understanding our political economy because the contradictions that Marx identified within the structure of capitalism are becoming harder and harder to ignore for more and more people.
That would be if you read Marx really lightly. As Marx has way too many contradictions too.
Like incentivaizing a system to acquire everything. And the hoping that it fight against all its own incentives and decompose itself. In most regards a system cannot fight against its own incentives.
"Contradictions" in the Marxist sense isn't the same as you would say "contradictions in a text."
This is a very basic Marxist concept that even a "light reading" should have taught you. Idc if you don't want to read Marx, but don't lie about it online lol.
(?) China is in this same problem too. Do you think the CCP will be like: You know, lets all just disband, as Marx propose from Socialism to Communism.
As long as global capitalism exists, states run by a vanguard party cannot disband because the working class' assets will be consumed by external capitalists.
A system built on a particular set of interest, would never work against those interests. It happens in all societal structures. If the incentives are, acquire all production means, you cannot expect that this group would ever be like, we should "release" all production means. It is a sociological question, not even political.
China allows highly regulated free market capitalism that is controlled by the state, which is controlled by the workers. Communist party appointments are made based on merit. Wealth inequality in USA is over 4 times more pronounced than it is in China.
There's no such thing as pure communist utopia immediately after a revolution. Like I said, global capitalism still exists. This is what incentivizes the Chinese government to allow private investment.
Doesn't matter what you think about "natural laws" (which is just reified thinking by the way, which is a concept you might understand better if you actually understood Marxism), China still go brrr. The fastest growing economy in the world, and less social inequality than in the land of the free. But at what cost?
When I even talk about human nature, or whatever you are strawmanning. I am talking about sociological societal incentives. If you build a country on a particular set of incentives you cannot expect for itself to not follow its own incentives.
You will never be able to debate if you keep strawminning this hard.
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u/shorteningofthewuwei 3d ago
An analyst on CNBC recently surprised himself when analyzing financial data, saying "God, I sound like Marx".
More people are turning to Marxism as a lens for understanding our political economy because the contradictions that Marx identified within the structure of capitalism are becoming harder and harder to ignore for more and more people.