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Also history teaches the opposite lesson. Hope for capitalist reform requires a belief that it will do the exact opposite of what it has done for the last 150 years.
The improvements under capitalism and due to capitalism (aside drom workers' struggles) largely happened early on, in an attempt to set up a liberal status quo and build on it as a bourgeois revolution with "freedoms", etc. Of course, this was all in the context of colonialism and the dehumanization of various races ans ethnicities, to echo your point.
Since then, advances have largely happened in response to or against capitalism, so only through a Marxist lens couod you credit that to capitalism itself: that it degrades conditions for the primary underclass it creates, an underclass that has the power and cognizance to push back. The labor movement, socialism, and even reform movements have at their core an oppositional nature to the liberal status quo, with the latter only succeeding when it happens to align with ruling class interests or through incredible effort, organization, and disruption.
Also history teaches the opposite lesson. Hope for capitalist reform requires a belief that it will do the exact opposite of what it has done for the last 150 years.
Exactly. It will never get better on it's own, it is built on a bedrock of exploitation and greed.
It requires a 'favorable' arbitrage somewhere to make a profit, so someone must always be getting shafted
The improvements under capitalism and due to capitalism (aside drom workers' struggles) largely happened early on, in an attempt to set up a liberal status quo and build on it as a bourgeois revolution with "freedoms", etc. Of course, this was all in the context of colonialism and the dehumanization of various races ans ethnicities, to echo your point.
Since then, advances have largely happened in response to or against capitalism, so only through a Marxist lens couod you credit that to capitalism itself: that it degrades conditions for the primary underclass it creates, an underclass that has the power and cognizance to push back. The labor movement, socialism, and even reform movements have at their core an oppositional nature to the liberal status quo, with the latter only succeeding when it happens to align with ruling class interests or through incredible effort, organization, and disruption.