03-18-2017, 01:26 AM
Not so fast, Kinser. Marxism is obsolete. Marx failed to recognize the power of technology to cut the need for labor contributions to the meeting of basic needs. What used to be done in 70 hours might now be done in... I dunno... 28? I'm guessing that in the typical 40-hour workweek in an office, perhaps 12 hours go into office politics.
Control of the means of production is no longer so important anymore. I can easily imagine an elite controlling people as harshly as capitalists of the Gilded Age by controlling the means of consumption -- perhaps even dictating how people spend what is supposedly 'their' money. Banks do that with farmers -- they lend money and tell farmers when to buy new equipment.
Control of the means of production is no longer so important anymore. I can easily imagine an elite controlling people as harshly as capitalists of the Gilded Age by controlling the means of consumption -- perhaps even dictating how people spend what is supposedly 'their' money. Banks do that with farmers -- they lend money and tell farmers when to buy new equipment.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.