09-02-2021, 04:53 PM
(03-05-2021, 05:02 AM)Einzige Wrote:Quote: Marxism has economic growth as an objective of its interpretation of Socialism
No it doesn't.
Marxism-Leninism claims that it can rush economic growth by cutting the capitalists out of it, using the profits even more completely to hasten industrialization instead of to feed plutocratic and aristocratic indulgence. One of the harshest critiques of capitalism was that capitalists took an inordinate share of the profits to waste on sybaritic excesses (mansions, horses, expensive cars, sartorial finery, mistresses, and culinary extremes). That stuff alienates intellectuals who have not bought into the plutocratic order -- especially those who read Marx and Engels sympathetically.
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.