The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-01-2020, 07:16 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(06-01-2020, 05:02 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: ... Marx correctly diagnosed the problem, but his way of solving the problem was a badly flawed failure which virtually no one is eager to repeat.  Even the Chinese Communist Party is working hand in hand with the capitalists these days.  This doesn't mean the problems of a grossly profiteering elite don't need to be solved.  Government for the few rather than the many is a problem.

It's hard to know what Marx would have done, if he had the opportunity to enact his own ideas. We only know what Lenin and the Bolsheviks did with their shot.  Following the Soviets, the other Marxist nations tried their versions too.  But none were already advance industrial nations, as Marx assumed.  None have seen the state fade away either -- quite to the contrary.  On the other hand, it doesn't take a genius to see that capitalism is at a crossroad.  The power of labor is already fading fast, and it's too easy for capital to take advantage.  

When all jobs are gig jobs, we'll become a true oligarchy or a massive change will occur.  It would be better for it to happen earlier, but we're Americans: we try everything else first.

Marx was likely a Myers Briggs Thinker. The best leader types tend to be Feelers. He was likely just better at writing books about abstract theory than he was at leading men.