PoliticalChic
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Which ones are you referring to? A "marxist" economy wouldn't exist if communism was achieved, unless you count efficient use of surplus, guaranteed work, collective ownership of production. Workers paradise isn't a fools dream, it's something to strive for. Labor is exploited, constantly, although you don't follow the labor theory of value, so I wouldn't expect a capitalist to understand. They were exploiting your capital? Oh please. If a sweatshop worker produces $50 in products for the capitalist in an hour, leaving out where the base materials came from, and all of the labor used, the exploitation is real.Exploiting people's labor for your own profit isn't noble.
And at the end of the day that is why Marxist economies are doomed to fail. The "Worker's Paradise" is a fool's dream in which paying one's employees what the market dictates is "exploiting people's labor."
Frankly, too many of those who once worked for me were exploiting my capital.
There's only one way to achieve your "worker's paradise" dream ... at the end of a gun. Like most "capitalists" I started out as an hourly wage earner but never whined about being "exploited." Like many I saved, looked for opportunities and when a good one came I borrowed what I could and jumped in with both feet. Making it work meant 80 hr work weeks but it created personal ownership of production and personal wealth ... something I wouldn't expect a socialist to understand or approve of.
I don't believe for a moment that the dunce is either a Marxist or a believer in communism.
He's simply a juvenile who has the desire to shock everyone with the 'courage to champion abject evil.'
Probably runs around his mommy's basement in chaps and a cap gun.