Multiple generations of capitalist oppression creates cultural trenches deeper than any single subsequent generation can easily emerge from.
Marx - and many of his contemporaries - were convinced Communism could only emerge in a modern industrialized state, because these states needed domestic surplus sufficient to satiate the public in the transition to subsequently more-pure forms of communal social order.
But two generations later, the largest and most successful revolutions emerged in the most backwater corners of the globe. Communists revolted at the fringes of Empire and industrialized around new economic models. They did not revolt in the imperial core and reform by leveraging surplus. Imperialists simply opted for fascist self-incineration when faced with a break down in the surplus supply chain.
A country like Britain, which is heavily invested in foreign rental income, foreign labor, and imported consumer goods, is not well positioned to adopt socializing the means of production they outsourced ages ago. They are, more likely, positioned to reverting to their Elizabethan roots as state-sponsored mercenaries and pirates.
The oppression inherent in capitalism makes working people stupider, louder, and more aggressive. This disproves socialism. I am very intelligent.
Multiple generations of capitalist oppression creates cultural trenches deeper than any single subsequent generation can easily emerge from.
Marx - and many of his contemporaries - were convinced Communism could only emerge in a modern industrialized state, because these states needed domestic surplus sufficient to satiate the public in the transition to subsequently more-pure forms of communal social order.
But two generations later, the largest and most successful revolutions emerged in the most backwater corners of the globe. Communists revolted at the fringes of Empire and industrialized around new economic models. They did not revolt in the imperial core and reform by leveraging surplus. Imperialists simply opted for fascist self-incineration when faced with a break down in the surplus supply chain.
A country like Britain, which is heavily invested in foreign rental income, foreign labor, and imported consumer goods, is not well positioned to adopt socializing the means of production they outsourced ages ago. They are, more likely, positioned to reverting to their Elizabethan roots as state-sponsored mercenaries and pirates.