(July 30, 2019 at 4:21 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: I am unaware of any popular conception that Marx hated industrial revolution. Marx saw the evolution of human society as a deterministic one in which ever greater productivity leads the the sort of affluence which removes want and lead somehow to his meritocracy which incentivized nothing. He welcomed industrial revolution as the final inevitable step that inevitably ends in bringing about his utopia. He also welcomed capitalism as an inevitable step that facilitated industrial revolution and massive wealth creation which in the end will bring about his wantless utopia.
I disagree with Marx's "science." His dialectical materialism... I think his Hegelian influence only takes him so far. I more like the thinking of Mikhail Bakunin or Leo Tolstoy. Or Gandhi for that matter. I reject the ideas of Fanon and Sartre that violence is necessary. These thinkers correctly pointed out that capitalism depends itself on force and violence, but neither thought to starve capitalism of its necessities. The real thing that keeps capitalism going is obedience. Once we all disobey, capitalism will fall. And this can be done without violence.
Like Fanon and Sartre argued: capitalism depends itself on force and violence. A violent Marxist uprising also depends itself on force and violence. And in the end, all these uprisings produce is a bureaucratic elite who is just as exploitative as the capitalists were. Thus, in my view, the only way to truly achieve Marxism is through nonviolent disobedience.
