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Problem is, you may own the means of production, but most people don't. If you don't address that, you'll end up with a "dictatorship of the proletariat".
by chairmansteve 1y ago
Problem is, you may own the means of production, but most people don't.
If you don't address that, you'll end up with a "dictatorship of the proletariat".
- nurettin 1y agoThat's not a problem anymore. I live in a 2nd world country. Every farmer has a phone, anyone who wants can get their child a laptop. Just because I don't have access to machines which build plane engines doesn't mean I have the right to complain about proletariat. People who invented, invested, earned and built the damn things own them. If that's "dictatorship" that's fine.
- chairmansteve 1y agoYou are deceiving yourself. A phone and a laptop is not the means of production. It is a small part of it. You forget electricity, internet, data centers. In a rentier economy, the plutocracy slowly take control of all these things and then increase the rent they charge to the rest of us. This was part of Marx's analysis, as I'm sure you are aware. Free market capitalism is great, but it has to balanced with regulation or it evolves into feudalism.