If you lived before Capitalism, would you say that Feudalism is the best we’ve got? What about in the years shortly following the French Revolution?
If you flipped a coin 5 times and it landed on heads each of the five times, does the probability that it will be heads lower on the 6th flip?
Essentially, I’m asking if you have any structural qualms with Socialism. If you can name specific issues with historical examples that you believe are inevitable whenever Socialism is built, what would those be?
Yep, Capitalism hasn’t shown much promise, every single instance has resulted in eventual decay and stagnation, with rising exploitation, stagnating wages with respect to productivity, and more. That’s why Socialism is necessary.
If you lived before Capitalism, would you say that Feudalism is the best we’ve got? What about in the years shortly following the French Revolution?
If you flipped a coin 5 times and it landed on heads each of the five times, does the probability that it will be heads lower on the 6th flip?
Essentially, I’m asking if you have any structural qualms with Socialism. If you can name specific issues with historical examples that you believe are inevitable whenever Socialism is built, what would those be?
It’s crazy that people can’t even imagine doing things differently than capitalism.
Both crazy and omnipresent. Capitalist Realism is a troubling mental hurdle to cross, as it’s so ingrained into common culture.
Marx’s depiction of Capital as a living, breathing God is fascinating and worth looking into, if you haven’t before.
Can you point me towards a particular chapter or book where he wrote about capital as a god? It sounds intriguing.
Here’s a great article on it, with direct quotes.
Marx gets funky.
I think it’s more that the attempts so far haven’t been very promising
Yep, Capitalism hasn’t shown much promise, every single instance has resulted in eventual decay and stagnation, with rising exploitation, stagnating wages with respect to productivity, and more. That’s why Socialism is necessary.
I was talking about communism
Oh, sorry, thought you said something smart. Guess I overestimated you.
It’s fine