/lit/ - Literature

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>But even Marx thought life was better for the average man pre industrial revolution, which is undeniable.
>Quality of life for those who survived childhood in hunter gatherer societies was also quite high, there’s little evidence of them being grubby or stupid.

Well I think these claims are completely mythical, and designed to further some kind of ideology.

In Marx's case he wanted a modern version of some kind of imagined primitive communism, to which there is no shred of evidence ever having existed.

>If you ask most progressives, they seem to believe “progress” only began in about 1750, when people began to believe in it.

Well I don't believe that. Progress for me started with the Sumerians to the Ancient Greeks, all up till today. And the idea of progress itself is literally the best argument against reactionaries and their ilk, because their systems have already been tried, and they have failed numerous times, and haven't been shown to be superior in any way to the current dominant system in the world and the West.

Now, with that said, this also implies that in the future, liberal democracy might be obsolete as well, but that doesn't mean that it will look like some /pol/-tard fantasy land, nor some kind of pseudo-Hinduistic caste system re Evola.