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> Marx's comments on capitalism are still useful. His solutions didn't work out well. > Russia ... China ... IIRC, those "solutions" weren't his. They were d
by Lionsion 8y ago
> Marx's comments on capitalism are still useful. His solutions didn't work out well.
> Russia ... China ...
IIRC, those "solutions" weren't his. They were dictatorships that took up central planning with a veneer of Marx.
> China now seems to have something that works, after a long painful period of Maoism.
Contemporary China has nothing to do with Marxism. It's basically an oligarchical state with its own business interests that rules over a capitalist economy.
- jeffreyrogers 8y agoCentralization is kind of inherent to communism though.
- Lionsion 8y ago> Centralization is kind of inherent to communism though. Care to elucidate? My understanding it that only seems to be true if you exclusively argue from the examples of historical 20th-century regimes that labeled themselves "communist," but that's flawed perspective.
- AstralStorm 8y agoCollectivism specifically. At some point centralisation is unavoidable as the whole thing would be unmanageable. Whether it is technical, legal or political (or all of the above) differs.
- jeffreyrogers 8y agoMarx says as much in his writings, calling for the centralization of credit, communication, transport, factories, agriculture, and education in the state.