Message from @Eoppa
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And european countries are generally more mixed economies that there is genuine multi party system
Marx didn’t know this would happen
I was more talking about effects of neo liberalism on capitalism not technology
And 1929 then 2008 should have been enough a lesson about the whole credit problem
For example
Marx couldn't predict that eventually the bourgeoisie wouldn't be using cultural means and the media/press to keep capitalism alive
Since in the time he wrote das kapital and the manifesto
When workers protested capitalism
It was met by force
^^
That cant happen in post Marx society
To be fair
None of us could have predicted the immense liberal shift in the 1900s
The bourgeoisie understand this
Hence why we have shit like the 80s
A great cultural shift to consumerism and money worship
To distract workers from the flatline and decline of wages
The outsourcing of jobs
The Reagan administration basically legalizing stock buy backs
Longer work hours
Consumerism is the problem
I've been saying this forever
You make the people poorer
Marx couldnt predict the future, it's really not his fault that in his lifetime capitalism was backed alot more by force than today
People who have less stuff are better off
To a point of course
When I say stuff I mean consumer gadgets and designer clothes and such
Eh
Tbh
Consumerist cultural is good for the rich
*for the rich*
What's it doing for you and me
Making communists out of us
I mean, the dynamics that guide social and political change were the same in the past, though they are much more robust and difficult to puncture now
That's about it
Why be a communist when you can be a distributist or something not heretical
Eh
This
Aren't we going very off topic