^^

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

I think Marx misunderstands/didn't have a full picture of power dynamics

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

@Eoppa

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

Distributism cant work until the church is purified or Christianity is United

Preferably both

What was the question even

Military spending

No religion based economic system can work West of the German polish border

It's very secular

Well nothing at all is going to happen until we build institutions outside of the current neoliberal paradigm, and the church has the greatest potential to become that (as it previously was).

The church was only so powerful because of an information disparity

It's not "religion based" persay it's just consistent with catholic social teachings