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[David Horn]

(03-26-2021, 11:04 AM)Einzige Wrote: Yes, really. Even MUH PROGRESSIVE HEROES like Paul Wellstone were bourgeois shitscum (capitalist progressives are even more insidious than  conservatives- progressives develop the architecture of capitalist social control, e.g. Social Security, which the bourgeois State administers).

As this crisis of capitalism deepens - and it indeed is a crisis of capitalism, of material production, and not of the voodoo arrangement of stars in the zodiac or of generations - the Democratic Party will increasingly reveal itself for the raw, brutal instrument of bourgeois class domination which it actually is.

I normally ignore your rants, but I'll make and exception this time. 

Just what will your version of the great Marxist nirvana actually look like?  It certainly will differ from Marx's vision, since the need for human labor will vanish in the coming decades.  Will there continue to be wealthier people? I think so, not because we can't wrest control from them, but due to our need for entertainment.  The Ritzy-Glitzy are always fun to watch, and have to live in a transparent bubble for the privilege of being them.  The penury of the 19th century and the démodé persuasions of the 20th will give way to something not totally level, but high enough at the bottom that folks wishing to have that life will be comfortable enough, and those wishing more will be able to access it easily (if not for free).  The bottom will rise and the top will recede, but equality will never occur.  Why?  Because people are all different, have different wants and needs, and some as yet undefined hierarchy will develop to accommodate that, like it or not.

Note: none of us will live to see this; we may see it begin. Using Bob Butler's spirals of progress model, we will take a few steps back along the way, but progress overall.