The cancer infecting the political Left

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(12-02-2020, 09:28 PM)Einzige Wrote:

(12-02-2020, 09:13 PM)Mickey123 Wrote:

(12-02-2020, 01:16 AM)Einzige Wrote: The point of Marxists is not to instigate or lead a revolution. That comes as a consequence of processes endemic to capitalism.

This is the Marxist fantasy that never worked out in reality.

Marx had the idea that communism would happen automatically, that capitalism carried the seeds of its own destruction, and would inevitably lead to communism just as a ball rolls down a hill.  But this never happened.  It turns out that capitalism leads to social democracy, and the workers have good enough lives that they never rise up and overthrow the system.

So Marxists, having faced the failure of Marx's theories, have turned to forcing socialism into place, through violent revolutions.  This has been a complete disaster, creating miserable police state dystopias.  In places where socialist revolutions are not currently possible, Marxists have turned to cultural Marxism, trying to rot society from within in the hopes that if they can make things bad enough, workers will finally rise up.

The sad truth is that Marxism has led to nothing but misery, but Marxists never give up, always ready to create more of it.  "This time, it will be different", they say each time.

How long has capitalism existed?

The Romans and Egyptians and Greeks and most other ancient cultures had currency.