Unironically this is what happens when a MFer doesn’t embrace dialectical materialism. He got 90% of the way there - our society sucks and 99% of people live in abject misery, and then instead of having a fucking class analysis or some kind of conflict theory he’s like “hehe Ted explode people until they want to live in the forest :galaxy-brain: ”
You can’t revert society to its former state Ted you moron, you absolute buffoon. There’s too much accumulated labour. It can just move to higher and higher forms. Don’t return to monke, push for socialism!
Unless an asteroid comes and wipes out half the planet tomorrow, yeah. Over time maybe. If we collectively decide to stop fixing things and making things, but as we stand, we've engineered an environment that demands our constant labor. Either we take that environment back into the collective and have democratic control over how to manage it and either expand it or neglect it, or the capitalists maintain control over it and use it to crush us underfoot to build them more stuff.
The common ruin of the contending classes is always an option.
That's the asteroid scenario
I don't think that's what Marx meant when he wrote that. There are tons of situations where the conflict between proletarians and bourgeoisie could end up destroying the human race without and outside force like an asteroid doing us in.
The asteroid was just an example lol, I was basically using that as a situation where everything falls apart due to a complete failure of the existing products of our labor. Climate change has a huge possiblity of just wiping out the built environment and setting us back to square 1.
Nuclear warfare, pandemic, anything that we fail to organize against really. Even then, the world still exists. The knowledge we have still exists in some form. Whatever comes next will be built on what came before. Especially because the waste products we've created have half lives in the tens of thousands of years and the structures we've built will persist for at least centuries in some form.
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