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What irked me about this article was the author's immediate need to declare his love of Marxism and "Marxist-powered technology". It's a reminder of how entren
by motters 12y ago
What irked me about this article was the author's immediate need to declare his love of Marxism and "Marxist-powered technology". It's a reminder of how entrenched the current ideology is and how people feel they must align themselves to it, for fear of ridicule (or worse). But I agree with the overall tone of the article. Maybe there will be a day when Marxism is considered to be a thing of the past and we can move on to some other socio-economic paradigm.
- llamataboot 12y agoBut the idea that capitalism will eventually produce the conditions of its own demise is /the/ Marxist argument. It's like Marx 101. Capitalism is a stage (and a necessary one) on the way towards full communism. (Unfortunately we've seen that attempts to move past that dictatorship of the proletariat time period haven't worked out so well)
- nmrm 12y agoYou have it exactly backwards. McCarthy is not ancient history, and Marxism is still viewed mostly met suspiciousness and ridicule in the us. No one in the US and in their right mind would claim to be Marxist in order to fit in our due to social pressure. If anything, the exact opposite.