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What? Capital vol 1 and 2 establish how the industrial revolutions lead to post scarcity. That’s what most of his work was about.

• rendall 5y ago
  > What? I'm certain nowhere in Marx is the term "post scarcity". If that's what he really meant, then it should be easy to demonstrate that with a paragraph or so. Otherwise one could take any good outcome and insist that Marx already predicted it.
  • ixtli 5y ago
    It’s honestly really hard to tell if you’re engaging in good faith here. If you really are, I’d direct you to the Grundrisse. Marx specifically explains that as industrialization continues more and more parts of the economy become automated which (should) free up labor to pursue other things like art and science. Yes it is true that he didn’t literally use the phrase “post-scarcity” but there has been 200 years of academic development on these works since then and I don’t regard this simpler way of discussing the concept as controversial, especially since this is a social media thread and not an academic paper.
    • rendall 5y ago
      > It’s honestly really hard to tell if you’re engaging in good faith here. I can see why. I am, though. The first paragraph is a good demonstration. It's falsifiable. I can look it up myself and agree or disagree. Either way, good. Thanks.