07-28-2020, 08:04 PM
(07-28-2020, 05:52 PM)Einzige Wrote: Goddammit, Marxism is not simply Industrial Capitalism With Unions.
What it is, above all, is labor abolitionism.
At the worst, capitalists seek to transform industrial workers into serfs. They so succeeded in the demonic Third Reich. Highest profits come from exacting maximal toil for minimal pay (well, just enough to ensure that workers don't starve or commit suicide in large numbers.
Oddly, the German workers had unions, but those unions simply told workers to work harder and longer and demand less so that they can create more wealth and deserve more -- while serving as conduits of state propaganda and bleeding workers for contributions to Nazi "charities". One is better off with no union than with that sort of union!
Nazi Germany had a high suicide rate -- among "Aryans", especially among industrial and farm workers.
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.
