Friendly reminder to sage brainlet threads
Capitalism is a complete failure
Ryan Scott
Dylan Gonzalez
It's certainly an improvement over feudalism. Sure. But there is so much resources that can be utilized for everyone, but is prevented from doing so. People could be all fed and clothed. People die in wars of greed. The needs of people are marginalized for profits. You ain't dead, but for sure ain't fucking happy.
Jordan Garcia
Capitalism has not had its uses, as we are still continuing to see strides of improvements in developing countries, as well as countries in the West.
Except less and less people are starving thanks to capitalism.
Justin Watson
Of course marxism had *some* upsides but overall we really need to evolve beyond marx.
Austin Hill
Why do communists always use the god-perspective?
Matthew Peterson
Thousands more than there were, thousands and thousands more hungry niggers than there were before capitalism. Of course, niggers are worthless; is this the failing of capitalism? If not for charity i.e. not nationalism there would be enough food in africa to sustain as their nigger populations would not have grown. Furthermore, just because capitalism has not solved the world's problems, does not mean it is a failure as communism would fare far worse at solving any problem that capitalism has neglected.
Easton Wilson
The product of data manipulation and moving of yardsticks on a massive scale.
Even if it were true, it doesn’t invalidate anything, in fact Marx himself predicted that capitalism would have the effect of enrichment. The fact is that capitalism’s demise isn’t the result of impoverishment, but of its inherent instability and tendency towards self canibalization. Automation, saturation of markets, overproduction, the need for infinite expansion, etc.
What happens when robots and AI make labour obsolete? What happens when markets become universally saturated? What happens when there is nowhere for it to expand? What happens when there is a crisis of overproduction so widespread, and no world war to bring it out again?
Then comes the self canibalization, the squeezing of the consumer class, planned obsolescence, making money off of complex financial schemes, etc. Eventually it starts eating away at its own support base, like we are seeing now with the middle class squeeze.
Gavin Sullivan
Kevin Butler
The organisation of tribes under a Feudal monarchy obviously helped store enough produce away in order to survive off seasons, this does not mean we must argue for more feudalistic measures to feed people.
Also, human labor is what alleviates people from poor conditions, not some mystical system that just makes everything okay. The way we produce and distribute goods as a society can have flaws which exist only to that system, creating unnecessary suffering. If we can do better, it is our duty to do so.
theguardian.com
Hudson Johnson
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