(12-13-2020, 12:01 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(12-12-2020, 06:33 PM)Einzige Wrote: Kautskyite social democracy and conservatism are functionally identical.
Kautsky, a social democrat and a pacifist of Jewish origin (and obviously an anathema to the Nazi) broke with Lenin on dictatorship. Socialism without democracy is a monstrosity as vile as fascism which makes no claim to social justice.
1. Communism makes no claims to abstract notions like "social justice". It makes, properly understood, no ethical claims at all. Marx himself didn't even consider capitalism unjust in an objective sense.
Quote: What is “a fair distribution"?’ he asks pointedly. ‘Do not the bourgeois assert that the present-day distribution is “fair"? And is it not, in fact, the only “fair” distribution on the basis of the present-day mode of production? Are economic relations regulated by legal conceptions or do not, on the contrary, legal relations arise from economic ones? Have not also the socialist sectarians the most varied notions about “fair” distribution?
- Marx, Gothakritik
2. Democracy is irrelevant. When control of the productive processes is held exclusively by proletarian society, then representative democracy ceases to be relevant, for every worker can Express his own interest through his own actions.