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Didn't take the media long after this book came out to trot out old Marx. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy#Guilt_by_association_as_an_ad_homine
by dpweb 12y ago
Didn't take the media long after this book came out to trot out old Marx.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy#Guilt_by_association_as_an_ad_hominem_fallacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy#Guilt_by_as...
In the capitalist west in the 20th century, it seems to me we've experienced what Marx envisioned, the struggle (sometimes violent) between the upper and lower classes, again and again. It is possible to be right in your assessment and wrong in your prescription.
Strangely enough, I think we're more socialist than we think we are. A huge part of the massive US Govt is pure income redistribution, and even so we're still farther to the right than any European country that comes to mind.
- capz 12y agoMarx was wrong. Provably wrong. His ideas were put to the test across various cultures and geographies (Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, Angola, etc.). Failed. Failed. Failed. Failed. Failed. And the response to this is that they didn't go far enough. There were still capitalists somewhere. It would've worked if the whole world (echoed here by Piketty's world wide tax) was communist. Perhaps Marx was right in his assessment, but maybe there is no prescription. That is never brought up. Perhaps you're condemned to have a standard of living better than most royals enjoyed a century ago (CAT scans, Internet, Jet Travel - capital, capital, capital) and the price is ennui and jealousy of someone with 2000x more paper wealth. Maybe there is no alternative, or all the alternatives are just a lot worse. In the meantime, I will continue to think that any tax on accumulated capital is evil and label it as Marx 2.0.