(02-23-2021, 11:56 PM)Einzige Wrote:(02-23-2021, 12:10 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(02-22-2021, 09:15 PM)Einzige Wrote:(02-22-2021, 09:10 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Discussing capitalism with Einzige on the partisan divide page. Does that mean Marxism is one side of the divide now? (I know the Republicans and Classic Xer say so.....)Communism is - slowly - becoming a power unto itself again, against both capitalist liberalism and conservatism.
The division of wealth is rising to the top of flaws in the culture that must be addressed. Not yet, but soon, as the turnings turn. The problem that Marx foresaw will eventually be acted on. But by that time violent revolution will not be the dominant way that democracies change the culture. That is so Industrial Age. When Marx's great problem is finally addressed, it will not be by the method that Marx predicted.
Yes it will be. Representative democracy exists to support capitalist class structures.
Plutocracy works best without any pretense of representative democracy. Just think of Pinochet's Chile, often a favorite of people who care only about the well-being of the super-rich. There were no elections. Decisions were made by the dictator and his coterie without input from any but those that had access to them -- which was the Chilean elite and foreign investors. Although Chile had a fairly high GDP by Latin-American standards, hunger was a reality in Chile. I will show some material on that hideous regime.
When I was in college I got to meet some young people from Chile... and they were glad to be in America. I once asked naively whether things were quite as bad as American media made Chile look under Pinochet. It wasn't that bad, I was told. It was worse,
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.