Again, your Marxist ideals are all based on a very flawed foundation.
One that neglects human nature completely.
The only way to have any production in a Marxist economy is by the force of enslavement under an iron fisted government.
While you might get the bare essentials under Marxism,
Marxism can never result in the greatest advancement of the human race and I have clearly pointed out why.
And you have become rude.
That tells me I have defeated your argument.
You're delusional and irrational. Does rudeness invalidate a person's position? You're confused if you believe that. You're being a disingenuous, pretentious twerp, spouting off a bunch of Cold War lies and rhetoric. If someone is lying about you or what you believe, demonizing your position, you have every right to be assertive and yes, even rude. I'm more assertive than rude because I still haven't called you an ignorant idiot
. I can be rude and right and you can be soft-spoken, sweet, civil, and WRONG.
The capitalist argument that capitalism reflects human nature is a silly, worn-out argument that doesn't reflect reality. We are social animals and if we examine our behavior and needs we'll find that we are naturally socialists, not capitalists. For tens of thousands of years, human beings organized labor by applying a primitive form of communism, not capitalism. Humanity has been socialist for most of its existence on this planet. The idea that people naturally are just "looking out for #1" is groundless and without much merit. Do you want to build a society on those values? ME, MYSELF AND I, DOG EAT DOG. You need to mature.
Without socialism, capitalism can't survive. Capitalism has always relied on government bailouts and plenty of government support, including the currency created and printed by the government. There's no capitalism without a certain degree of socialism.
As technology advances, it socializes and democratizes production.
Advanced technology eliminates the exploitative relationship between capitalist employers/exploiters and employees/exploitees, creating the opportunity and eventually the necessity for the adoption of a non-profit system of production. We call that non-profit mode of production, socialism. Socialism is the process that leads to high communism, a stateless society, without socioeconomic classes or the need for money.
Adam Smith the father of capitalism, wrote in his book "The Wealth Of Nations", the following:
What are the common wages of labour, depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little as possible. The former are disposed to combine/unite in order to raise, the latter in order to lower the wages of labour. It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen.
We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work; but many against combining to raise it. In all such disputes the masters can hold out much longer.
I can just go on and on..showing how Adam Smith, identifies the capitalists as masters of their employees. It's their interests that dominate over that of their workers, leading to injustice and eventually poverty. That's why modern, Marxist socialism was born, from capitalism.
The only reason we didn't have a second civil war in this country in the 1930s, during the great depression, was thanks to FDR's New Deal. Without American leftists, pushing from the bottom, for those policies we would've had a civil war. The unions, organized by leftists, forced the hand of the government to establish the New Deal, which led to the golden era of our economy in the 1950s and 60s when commerce was seen as a community service, not just a profit-pursuing enterprise.
The American ruling class eventually, gradually ate away at that New Deal, and in 1981 they got their real break with Ronald Reagan. Reaganomics a.k.a. "trickle-down economics", gutted America's working class. It stripped America of its manufacturing base by allowing corporations to exploit dirt-cheap labor abroad, for huge profits at home. It cut taxes for the rich, and created massive debt. The cost of living dramatically increased, wages became stagnant, workers lost their benefits..etc.
Advanced automation technology and artificial intelligence require the socialization and democratization of production, in other words, the adoption of democratic socialism. A non-profit mode of production that no longer relies on the capitalist employer/exploiter and employee/exploitee relationship. This is clear to most reasonable and rational people who examine the evidence. Even billionaires are starting to recognize this.
Advanced Technology = Democratic Socialism/Socialized-Democratized Production.
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