RE: Poverty
October 24, 2011 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2011 at 2:23 pm by bozo.)
(October 24, 2011 at 2:45 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:as communism obviously doesn't work.
But was communism ever tried?
Marx envisioned the industrial proletariat rising up to seize the means of production from the bourgeois. What happened was a rising of agricultural peasants in Russia which led to immediate civil war and instead of the state withering away a massive bureaucracy developed.
Lenin argued the Theory of Imperialism which held: In Lenin’s developing Marxism for Russian application, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) explains a development which Marx predicted: capitalism’s becoming a global system wherein advanced capitalist industrial nations export financial capital to colonial countries to exploit their resources and labour.
Marx may have simply been ahead of his time. The republicolibertarianeo-conazis may ultimately be the best thing that ever happened to communism. Marx may make a comeback.
I say Marx was ahead of his time. His ideas and theories have never completely gone away, it's just that right-wing orthodoxy has held sway from the 1980's onwards and Marxism is not as out there as it was. And I expect his ideas will make a big comeback as the world financial crises continue apace.
(October 24, 2011 at 4:30 am)frankiej Wrote: Personally, I'm going to go all Robin Hood to do my bit
One of my all-time heroes...a socialist in green tights
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
