hey first off you're amazing and I hope it's been rewarding to take the first dive into theory
I'd love to address a lot of points but I'll just address a couple for now because I'm in a time pinch currently
Ideally if we only have one choice we have to make sure it's the right one, no?
yes, fully correct, 100%. Since the economy is fully democratized and planned, it is up to the state to decide if restricting brand choice is ideal or if it's actually in the state's best interest to keep competition alive. Solutions vary on this - I don't purport to know the best ones, but some examples are fashion would absolutely suck under one state brand and it'd likely be in the state's best interests to facilitate several simultaneous brands, where something like medicine would do better under one brand, as having all the data on studies/usage/manufacturing under one roof enables safer and faster development. Under capitalism, all we can do is let each industry be dominated by the corporation or corporations that are the most profitable, but under socialism, we are free to choose any mechanism we choose to decide how many brands there are and how they are run.
AFAIK a revolution in a single country did happen right?
yep. This is one of the things that Marx is notoriously wrong about, also that the highly developed world would see socialist revolution first. They tried their best to predict these things and they missed sometimes and you'll find that there is a ton of modern theory that addresses these gaps nicely.
do you have any examples? I'll add them to the massive pile...
I'm not who you asked, but I can think of a couple Marx/Engels concepts that have been expanded on by other theorists. What I find appealing about Marxism is that it's approached as a science. If something is wrong, then it is ripe to be corrected, without throwing the baby out with the bath water. The point is for the proletariat to collectively and scientifically develop an understanding of the capitalist world so that it may more effectively advance its class interests.
How imperialism works, or more broadly, how capitalist societies relate to one another. Marx was obviously aware of imperialism and colonialism and alluded to its existence, for example in the famous chapter on primitive accumulation. But other theorists definitely made contributions on this front, for example V. I. Lenin, Ruy Mauro Marini, John Smith, Immanuel Wallerstein.
How the oppression of women works in detail. Some names are Angela Davis, Silvia Federici, Claudia Jones.
Ecology, I honestly haven't read much on this topic though I know it is super interesting, some names are Kohei Saito, John Bellamy Foster
hey first off you're amazing and I hope it's been rewarding to take the first dive into theory
I'd love to address a lot of points but I'll just address a couple for now because I'm in a time pinch currently
yes, fully correct, 100%. Since the economy is fully democratized and planned, it is up to the state to decide if restricting brand choice is ideal or if it's actually in the state's best interest to keep competition alive. Solutions vary on this - I don't purport to know the best ones, but some examples are fashion would absolutely suck under one state brand and it'd likely be in the state's best interests to facilitate several simultaneous brands, where something like medicine would do better under one brand, as having all the data on studies/usage/manufacturing under one roof enables safer and faster development. Under capitalism, all we can do is let each industry be dominated by the corporation or corporations that are the most profitable, but under socialism, we are free to choose any mechanism we choose to decide how many brands there are and how they are run.
yep. This is one of the things that Marx is notoriously wrong about, also that the highly developed world would see socialist revolution first. They tried their best to predict these things and they missed sometimes and you'll find that there is a ton of modern theory that addresses these gaps nicely.
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I'm not who you asked, but I can think of a couple Marx/Engels concepts that have been expanded on by other theorists. What I find appealing about Marxism is that it's approached as a science. If something is wrong, then it is ripe to be corrected, without throwing the baby out with the bath water. The point is for the proletariat to collectively and scientifically develop an understanding of the capitalist world so that it may more effectively advance its class interests.
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