RE: Death by capitalism (the meme thread)
October 12, 2018 at 2:34 pm
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2018 at 2:39 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 11, 2018 at 12:59 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: People who have a problem with capitalism see human life as something more valuable than what the market says it's worth. If we allow the free market to put a value on our human dignity, then we do not trade goods in the marketplace. WE are traded like goods IN the marketplace. If you see that as inevitable, fine. But if you see it as all fine and good, then you mustn't see much inherent value in human life to begin with.
The problem with this view is the guesture of “putting more value on humans life” often only shift the effective cheapness of human life and dignity from a location and circumstances where one has trained oneself to look and criticize, to a different location or environment which one has conditioned oneself to ignore or whitewash.
(October 11, 2018 at 8:32 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Marx' biggest problem is that he had no understanding of human nature. Trump's biggest problem is that he is a greedy piece of shit.
Marx actually has a great deal more understanding of human nature than his contemporaries.
There are two ways to evaluate one’s understanding of human nature:
1. predicting accurately what humans will do
2. Predicting accurately what humans will believe what humans will do.
Marx got the second nailed to a more precise degree than perhaps any other single individual in human history. Where he failed is he thought he was getting the 1st, not the 2nd, right.
