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!
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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