03-28-2021, 07:53 AM
(03-27-2021, 03:22 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(03-25-2021, 03:34 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(03-24-2021, 04:28 PM)Einzige Wrote:(03-22-2021, 04:57 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: It has been 173 years since Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto. Name one nation where capital has been abolished and your version of Marxism has been implemented and established.
A whole three full generations for an entire social logic to work itself out! You've really got me there.
I wouldn't give up yet. If the Chinese Communist Party insists on not listening to the people, something like a proletarian revolution could yet occur. Expecting the result to mesh with the Marxist ideal? Well, maybe you should give up.
Worth remembering: the Commies' predecessor, the Kuomintang, began as a left-wing Party and went to the Right, too
This may be the right time to mention our WEIRD-ness, and how different and rigid the Chinese model is and has been for centuries. I doubt we will be subsumed by the East, nor will we crush them. The US-Soviet duopoly was much less logical than the emerging one, but a manifest China isn't going to happen either.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.