It’s an economic and political system

Marx was a direct ideological descendent of Adam Smith and John Locke

Very very cringe

Like capitalism has been so great lol

You can have Great Leap Forward/Great Purge
You can have hardline liberals who want to fight for „justice“

Both claim to act under Marx‘s guidance

The first group is more marxist then the second tbh

Well "the dialectic" isn't exactly a moral compass. It's a power analysis

I agree it is more Marxist

Modern China is trying to use it

Forcibly industrializing a rural country like China and Russia

That is a success of communism

Well I mean to be fair, I don't blame China

Both countries were absolute shitholes before communism

We are in a world where capitalism won

Any attempt to disconnect or isolate yourself from it is useless

China opened their markets wisely

Well capitalism winning is a good thing to Marx

That's a stage in the dialectic

Any attempt to disconnect and isolate leads to North Korea or Soviet Union, the former unless you’re a world power

China, the Soviets, etc understand you can't go to communism or socialism without building capital

Marx couldn't predict modern capitalism

Nobody could

Computers and automation were supposed to end long and hard work, but instead people work harder and work more, after being in more debt from a young age, and being encouraged, especially in the US and W. Europe, to credit credit credit

„Don’t have the money? Put it on the card!“

I’d call the USA more „semi corrupt oligarchy“ than „capitalism“

At least from what I understand of US politics

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