He's not saying that's good. He's saying if the forces of capital would be to just stop producing now 80% of the world population would not be able to feed themselves. That's 5,600,000,000 people starving. This is a fact we will have to reckon with. This does not mean capitalism is good. It means we're way deep into it.
This is literally the same argument every anti communist or revisionist has made since 1917
To not "rock the boat"
Actually Existing Socialism has proved itself a much more efficient system than capitalism. The fastest countries to industrialise were Marxist-Leninist ones that achieved in 10-20 years what took the Western capitalist states 100-150 years to develop
Harvey is garbage and I'm convinced the only people allowed to practice Marxism in bourgeois Academia (in the US) are Marxists that spread nonsense like a firehose like Harvey, Wolff etc
That's not how I read the argument he's making at all. I would urge a little caution before completely discarding some of the most powerful voices we have on the left, even if they're not left enough for your taste. I think calling a man garbage who has been spending his entire career railing against capitalism and teaching Marxism is very unwise from a strategic perspective. I think that's doing a service to the bourgeoisie and we can find more constructive ways to critique points we don't agree with.
Its a fkn terrible point given how 9 million people starve to death each year while food is buried to keep its market price high
He's not saying that's good. He's saying if the forces of capital would be to just stop producing now 80% of the world population would not be able to feed themselves. That's 5,600,000,000 people starving. This is a fact we will have to reckon with. This does not mean capitalism is good. It means we're way deep into it.
This is literally the same argument every anti communist or revisionist has made since 1917
To not "rock the boat"
Actually Existing Socialism has proved itself a much more efficient system than capitalism. The fastest countries to industrialise were Marxist-Leninist ones that achieved in 10-20 years what took the Western capitalist states 100-150 years to develop
Harvey is garbage and I'm convinced the only people allowed to practice Marxism in bourgeois Academia (in the US) are Marxists that spread nonsense like a firehose like Harvey, Wolff etc
That's not how I read the argument he's making at all. I would urge a little caution before completely discarding some of the most powerful voices we have on the left, even if they're not left enough for your taste. I think calling a man garbage who has been spending his entire career railing against capitalism and teaching Marxism is very unwise from a strategic perspective. I think that's doing a service to the bourgeoisie and we can find more constructive ways to critique points we don't agree with.