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> It should also be noted that the JCP apparently hired an ad agency to design the mascots, which hardly smacks of trying to pulling down the pillars of capital
by pizza 12y ago
> It should also be noted that the JCP apparently hired an ad agency to design the mascots, which hardly smacks of trying to pulling down the pillars of capitalism.
Common misconception is that communism is the antithesis of capitalism; Marx wrote instead about overclocking capitalism so hard that a better society could be built out of its extreme conclusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
- steveklabnik 12y agoAccelerationism is trendy now, but also pretty controversial. It's not so much that Marx wrote about accelerationism, just that the technological advances of capitalism were an important part of humanity's development, while containing contradictions that would eventually bring about its end.
- digi_owl 12y agoSadly Marx seems to have talked himself in circles, and those trying to make sense of his writings went off on a tangent. Marx seems to have started out with the basis of a "energy theory of value" but then talked himself into the idea that only labor was the source of excess value (more value out than needed for continued operation). Thus we ended up with the whole "labor theory of value". Never mind that he seemed more interested in a cooperative system of industry (workers owning the factories the work in) than the state run system that the soviet union produced. He considered the idea of Russia going right to socialism to be crazy, as it was still mostly agrarian. He was looking at heavily industrialized nations like England and Germany to transition instead, having used capitalism to get the required infrastructure and legal framework into place.