Comment on The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer

• phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Marx’s view was that socialism would develop as an emergent phenomenon (a modern term, not one he used) to correct the contradictions of capitalism. But in both Russia and China, they tried to impose socialism on what were essentially feudal societies. The result was state capitalism, the industrial revolution imposed at gunpoint with no control of the means of production by the workers. And, as capitalist societies, both countries continued the imperialism and nationalism of their predecessor regimes.

  And this isn’t an after-the-fact critique: contemporary socialists such as Rosa Luxembourg made these observations at the time.

  Skipping a developmental stage doesn’t work.

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• BrightCandle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No country has managed a transition to communism, all of them got turned into various types of authroritarian dictatorships. There is no known method for transitioning to communism and maintaining it.

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  • Doom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To be fair, when they tried outside influences actively sabotaged the attempt.

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  • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Would you know whether or not democratic socialism is a good prospect in that regard? A flavor of which that remains capitalistic, but using worker coops instead of the top down monarchistic approach?

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Communism in its true form is unsustainable economically and defies basic human sociology and psychology.

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    • Triasha@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Humans lived for 10s of thousands of years under communism. Capitalism was invented and within a couple of centuries the human race is commiting collective suicide with falling birth rates.

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      • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        For family units but it quickly breaks down in larger groups and as complexity increases.

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There were a few years of war communism during, well, the Civil War, but due to all the hunger deaths it might not be what your usual USSR fan wants to think about.

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