Well I think that situation would define winning for communists, sure. Personally I think if there was an international body where all parties were anti-capitalist, who then could control resource management and development of the world via a system of dispersed democratic committee from the bottom up, that would be the only thing that could save our planet from mass extinction, and also the only thing that could create social structures that don’t allow for worker exploitation. But in my mind there’s a lot of folks who would consider themselves leftists who are not anti-capitalists. Which, clock ticking, what do we do? I’m curious if we have enough time to continue the decades and decades of capitalist-communist argument that’s gotten us to where we are now, if that argument would move us forward through time still without changing economic structures, you know? Cause capitalism is the current mode of production. So that’s gonna continue until it’s stopped. What’s gonna stop it?
I think you need to separate the idea of "having a capitalist economy and liberal-democratic political system" and that of "supporting free market politics." We live under these systems not because they have overwhelming support, but because they have been handed down to us and are very difficult to change. For the most part, around the world people live under capitalism against their will.
Perhaps it comes down to whether or not you believe that, ecologically at the very least, we have time to humor the arguments for a system that has caused 2/3rds of wildlife extinction just within the last 50 years
Well I think that situation would define winning for communists, sure. Personally I think if there was an international body where all parties were anti-capitalist, who then could control resource management and development of the world via a system of dispersed democratic committee from the bottom up, that would be the only thing that could save our planet from mass extinction, and also the only thing that could create social structures that don’t allow for worker exploitation. But in my mind there’s a lot of folks who would consider themselves leftists who are not anti-capitalists. Which, clock ticking, what do we do? I’m curious if we have enough time to continue the decades and decades of capitalist-communist argument that’s gotten us to where we are now, if that argument would move us forward through time still without changing economic structures, you know? Cause capitalism is the current mode of production. So that’s gonna continue until it’s stopped. What’s gonna stop it?
Over half of the world supports free market political parties.
It is utopian to suggest they should be excluded from an international organization.
I think you need to separate the idea of "having a capitalist economy and liberal-democratic political system" and that of "supporting free market politics." We live under these systems not because they have overwhelming support, but because they have been handed down to us and are very difficult to change. For the most part, around the world people live under capitalism against their will.
Perhaps it comes down to whether or not you believe that, ecologically at the very least, we have time to humor the arguments for a system that has caused 2/3rds of wildlife extinction just within the last 50 years
So what is your solution?
Deny billions of people a voice in governance?
I don’t think billions of people are capitalists. I think billions of people are proletarians
No, just capitalists
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