RE: What is your opinion about Communism?
November 26, 2017 at 12:39 am
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2017 at 12:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 26, 2017 at 12:26 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: It has been shown to succeed the independent metric of continued survival and continued expansion.To the first half...a presentist metric. Plenty of things survived until they didn't. To the second half...so what? What does "expansion" mean to the average joe? Nothing. It was supposed to be a means..not and end..wasn;t it? Sure, as long as we judge it by it's own scorecard to the exclusion of all others it wins the game. Not exactly surprising, and not at all useful.
Quote:You can measure it with any metric you want. None of those metric will amount to anything if by that metric capitalism fails, but capitalism survived and prospers in the real world, orld if some other system shines by your metric, but is nonetheless unable to preserve itself against encroachment by capitalism.The system of capitalism can "survive and prosper" all it likes, but if it does so to the detriment of..you know...people...it seems as if something may be amiss. We don't exist to serve capital. Capital exists to serve us. "Encroachment" by capitalism is no different than encroachment by a hostile military force. How do we react to that?
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