the academy needs to be purged ngl
this is survivorship bias. "capitalism persists despite its cyclical catastrophes." tell that to the people who die or lose everything each time it shits itself
it's also a hard Eurocentric / america-centric worldview. I don't think people in the superexploited global south have experienced an "astonishing long-term rise in their standard of living". A rise in standards of living regardless, their statement outright ignores the premise of their challenge about wealth inequality. I guess since the poors are somewhat less poor, the ultra rich getting richer is ok?
True, it's an incredibly cloistered view from both a temporal and a spatial perspective. we in the imperial core owe our current prosperity to the exploitation of the global south, but also the future and past. People who find themselves prosperous at an economic peak do so at the expense of people coming into their means during a collapse. Usually we justify it as "the march of progress" but the defenders of capitalism are finding it harder and harder to obscure that it all will happen again.
Anyone who refers to gulags as some unique, horrific thing that would be totally out of bounds in any western country doesn't know the first fucking thing about the history or current state of incarceration in the west. Go mainline Discipline and Punish and maybe this article and then come talk to me about the conditions in gulags.
What the fuck, what kind of brain poisoning does this guy have?
"booms and busts are actually good and based because the economy can reconstitute itself (who cares about the hundreds of thousands who become homeless and destitute)"
Also completely ignoring that wages and thus standard of living has stagnated for the last 40 years and costs of living have only risen.
The idea of raising Marx as a spectre of vengeance to spiritually guillotine the rich is cool and good though. Does anyone have some candles and a necronomicon?
It's the description from a video debate titled "Marx was right" hosted by a channel that caters to debate nerds and skeptic(TM) types. I would guess that the brainworms are probably from being entrenched and elevated in British academia - although I didn't watch the video as its 2 hours and I have an exam tomorrow. Surprisingly though the comments are dunking on it and making it seem not really worth the time lmao
Why didn't the Russians primary Stalin then???Ugh, the poors are always voting against their interest 😑😒
