Nobody cares what Lenin had to say. You’re not just talking to the lemmygrad lot.
Reforms are great, but ultimately a doomed bandaid over real problems. Quoth Lenin:
“Reformism is bourgeois deception of the workers, who, despite individual improvements, will always remain wage-slaves, as long as there is the domination of capital.
The liberal bourgeoisie grant reforms with one hand, and with the other always take them back, reduce them to nought, use them to enslave the workers, to divide them into separate groups and perpetuate wage-slavery. For that reason reformism, even when quite sincere, in practice becomes a weapon by means of which the bourgeoisie corrupt and weaken the workers. The experience of all countries shows that the workers who put their trust in the reformists are always fooled.
And conversely, workers who have assimilated Marx’s theory, i.e., realised the inevitability of wage-slavery so long as capitalist rule remains, will not be fooled by any bourgeois reforms. Understanding that where capitalism continued to exist reforms cannot be either enduring or far-reaching, the workers fight for better conditions and use them to intensify the fight against wage-slavery. The reformists try to divide and deceive the workers, to divert them from the class struggle by petty concessions. But the workers, having seen through the falsity of reformism, utilise reforms to develop and broaden their class struggle.”
jerdle_lemmy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
rhino_hornbill@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lol, if I like you to an author you don’t recognize will you be able to engage with the argument? Let’s try: www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/…/ch05.htm
YourHuckleberry@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Karl Marx was an idiot. Let me explain…no there’s too much. Let me sum up. Replacing a whole system just because some parts of it don’t work is stupid. How do you know the system you put in as a replacement won’t also be broken.
Some people tried to replace capitalism with a totally different system and it went real bad real fast. This wasn’t an isolated incident. They tried it in a bunch of places and in none of them did it work. Marxism has been debunked in the field.
Marxism is the idea that you can fix problems with an ism. Got poor people? Try communism or socialism or half-cocked-ism. If your solution to a problem can fit on a bumper sticker it’s wrong.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You’re an engineer. There are absolutely scenarios where so much of a system is broken that you have to redesign the whole system. You can’t turn a steam engine into an electric motor piece by piece.
40% of the population is one missed paycheck away from poverty while a handful of people have rocket ships and megayachts and buy-a-few-politicians money. That is not a bug, that is the central operating principle, the Carnot cycle of capitalism. If you’re one of the millions who are in the “wage labor” part of the cycle instead of the “extract profit” part of the cycle, capitalism has already gotten real bad.
You’re an engineer. Don’t be so reductionist. You sound like a kid who invented a perpetual motion machine with an overbalanced wheel and magnets. You should know better.
Platomus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
What examples are you thinking of?
MelonTheMan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Your being downvoted because you straw manned, not sure if intentionally or not.
Like…really? Do you think that this community, or anyone worth talking to, thinks that it’s that easy?
irmoz@reddthat.com 11 months ago
The communist manifesto doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker, and even that’s just an introduction to his theories