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[Bob Butler 54]

(02-22-2021, 11:53 PM)Einzige Wrote: No more or less so than you being locked into bourgeois left-liberalism.

I would put my center on the triplet of ages, turnings and civilizations.  Specifically, for each civilization the crisis gets rid of one or more immediate flaws of the previous age.  As these flaws can involve many things, you have to learn the many things.  Capitol is just one of the things.

Once upon a time revolution was the key act.  Getting rid of the nobles was the clearing out of the Agricultural Age pattern.  The means of production was agricultural land.  When that was done, revolting against the industrial revolution and the Robber Barons seemed the next step.  Factories became the means of production.  It is not an irrational way of looking at things.

But racism, non violence, military balance, democracy, tribalism, religion and so many other things play a role in human culture.  Looking at things from a narrow century plus old perspective just doesn’t do it.  

Besides this, the problem was controlling the violent clique which inevitably hijacks any revolution.  Too many people see this problem which was never solved as a reason to avoid a revolution.  Communism became a non starter as democracy and non violence allowed you to change the culture without violence.

This does not mean the imbalance of wealth isn’t still a problem.  It will eventually be considered the most important problem left and be addressed in an awakening or crisis.  Looking at this crisis, that isn’t one of the current problems to be addressed.  That and perhaps global warming are all that are left, and only because warming won’t go away instantly.  If a good size effort is made towards warming this crisis, I could see the imbalance of wealth problem being addressed starting as soon as next awakening.

But in the democratic cultures, protest and legislation seem the most obvious way to change the culture.  Autocracies?  They have a talent for trying to ignore the people.  Violence may be necessary.  Ironic, but the cultures that patterned themselves originally on Marx may be victims of revolution.