Monday, May 20, 2024

One Inconvenient Truth that will Anger Supporters of Both Socialism and Capitalism


According to Marx's own definition (but not according to Marxist definition) we already live in Socialism. It was implemented somewhere between 1910s and 1930s depend on country and it only entrenched itself since then. 

Capitalism was before FDR's New Deal and Lyndon B Johson's Great Society. What came after is socialism.

Cold war was fought not between capitalism and socialism, but between western socialism, that calls itself liberal democracy and eastern technocracy that called itself socialism. Socialism, called liberal democracy, won.

Now we are on course of transitioning towards communism (once again as defined by Marx and not Marxists). Once again, it's not called communism, but rather Universal Basic Income.

There sure is a lot of irony in that.


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