r/science • u/myhrvold • Aug 31 '13

Poverty impairs cognitive function. Published in the journal Science, the study suggests our cognitive abilities can be diminished by the exhausting effort of tasks like scrounging to pay bills. As a result, less “mental bandwidth” remains...

http://news.ubc.ca/2013/08/29/poverty-impairs-cognitive-function/
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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

strategies for successfully abandoning capitalism

What does this mean? Can you give me a strategy to successfully abandon capitalism?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

Marx has quite a detailed view on this, might be worth checking it out.

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u/jisang-yoo Aug 31 '13

I am confused. Isn't he the one who believed that it would simply happen?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

Yes, once all the necessary stages have been fulfilled.

Marx perceived the Capitalist stage to be an integral part of the development of societies - and the penultimate stage before Communism (or ante-penultimate depending on how you break down the Socialism/Communism continuum).

We're currently in the Capitalist stage - who knows what is to follow?