/lit/ - Literature

>>18234792
Will unfettered capitalism lead to a stateless, classless, meritocratic society?
I don't trust the masses to get there by random chance and "free market".
A radical ideologue with no regard for the lives of a few parasites can give us a glimpse of that though.

>>10468112
>He forgot to account for human nature
This fucking M E M E

The manifesto is a propaganda pamphlet for borderline illiterate laborers in the 1800s. Read Das Kapital. Not only does he account for "human nature" and "market forces," he elaborates on how the real wild card was always going to be automation.

In fact, the only thing he was wrong about is that Communism would emerge from violent revolution. Which desu I don't fault him for that because that falls under the purview of the "Human nature" everyone's always insisting he forgot. His idea of violent revolution leading to the stateless classless society is just as understandable as Jefferson talking about the tree of liberty being refreshed with blood, and no more Utopian than Plato's Republic (Capital-R Real Republicanism has never been tried!!!).

Something resembling Communism will emerge after a few more centuries of money being a fucking volatile game of abstraction (see, Cryptocurrency, stocks, regulatory bodies being flooded with bad actors from the market, lobbyists, Earth being used as a chessboard for private property owners, rampant destruction of the environment, etc. all in the name of incremental gains in leverage over our temporary opponents)


... and it won't emerge because lumpenproletariat shitstains finally quote 'get woke' with class conshishnesh. It'll emerge because the bourgeoisie finally collectively realize they're the problem and use their own privileges to deconstruct their own privileges and create a network that replaces hierarchies with AI-driven concentric circles of mutual accountability, honesty, and anti-parisitism.

TLDR: Something resembling Communism happen because the market will decide it's more profitable for the human race than to continue the game of Capitalism.

>>9512009
IF YOU REALLY CARED THEN YOU WOULD

This is an argument I always hear from those with stable minds, healthy bodies, and good work ethic. It is a classic instance of the just world fallacy. I'm not saying it's not important to be disciplined (it is) or that it's not important to cultivate good habit (it is) or that it's not important to take responsibility (it is). I'm just saying that it's less about caring, and more about the sum of a person's internal and external resources.