The cancer infecting the political Left

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-03-2020, 01:15 AM)Einzige Wrote: The capitalists are the problem. Capital is always the problem.

I see the whole pattern of the Agricultural Age as the problem.  Too much power in the hands of the elites, with too much tribal thinking.  The Cousin's Wars describes the start of the porcess of moving away from that pattern.  The crises of recent times show how each major conflict removes a flaw of that pattern from the culture... kings, slaves, dictators, racists, etc...

Communism is a last attempt to maintain autocratic government, to maintain the Agricultural Age.  While in many ways they talk about progress and revolution against the old ways, the revolutions have always been in countries close to the Agricultural Age pattern whose culture leads the leaders to continue the Agricultural Age way.  While in many ways I can sympathize with the goal of revolting against the abuses of the elite, without the Enlightenment and non violent tools they have only wound up replacing the existing elites with another group of elites.  They have not provided a short of violence check on the power of the elites.

While most won't describe it that way, they have come to recognize Marxism as a failure, unworthy of support, and the Marxists have become irrelevant to the ongoing conflict between the Ages.  The struggle has gone on in the US without the Marxists ever becoming one of the two dominant philosophies.  It is likely now to continue that way, a ghost of a failed philosophy.

The struggle continues without them.  This crisis, the Republicans favor the elites and the racists.  The major points of conflict include too much wealth and power for the elites, racism, COVID, and perhaps global warming.  Another crisis, another step further away from the Agricultural Age pattern.

Einzige is dealing with a dead philosophy which is no longer relevant to the conflict.  Classic is supporting the old values, mistakenly falling for the propaganda of the elites.  Neither are getting rid of elements of the Agricultural Age and thus making the culture better.  They are trying to make creating a more perfect union not American.

We will see.  There is another holiday surge on top of a surge due.  The elitist in chief has a bunch of lawsuits lurking.  The economy is such that the elites are the only source of available capital.  The greenhouse gasses are building, riding the old idea that the environment is there to exploit.  I'm trying to preserve hope that the crisis could continue the long tradition of abuse left behind.  The loyalty to the old ways is still there.  They have pushed the old ways rather than go along with progress enough to prevent the crisis from becoming hard.

We shall see.