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This sure disappeared from the front page in a hurry. Here’s your scheduled reminder that, no matter what benevolence they claim, a news site run by a venture _capitalist_ fund may not have your best interests at heart vis-à-vis discussions about capitalism.
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If you're going to criticize it you need to propose something better. Marxism demonstrably isn't it.
> If you're going to criticize it you need to propose something better. No, I don't. This is nonsense. "How should society be run" is an unfathomably complex problem, possibly the problem of our entire existence. Of course I don't have the complete answer. That does not preclude noticing the myriad problems with the current system, to suggest it does is a complete non sequitur. > Marxism demonstrably isn't it. Holy f…
Yes, you do. Otherwise it's just whining.
Illustration:
I can't fly like Superman, even though it would be really, really cool if I could. It's a problem that makes my life less happy than it would otherwise be.
The first option I have is figure out some way to make that possible, and advocate that society (or venture capitalists, or whoever) devote the resources necessary to make it happen.
The second option, if the first ends in failure, is to conclude that it's not actually possible to do that, and just accept that fact and get on with my life.
The third option is to spend all my time complaining about how "unfair" it is.
The third option is called "whining".
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> Social democracy cannot be replicated in countries like USA or Eastern Europe Why?
Because of mentality and being very prone to the too much free power makes one too cocky. We can actually see how it works when corporations get lazy and mismanage very hard.
If it can't, then it's a missed opportunity of planetary proportions.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20446694?mag=socialism-make-peo...
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Good questions, but you ask as if there were no intellectuals out there discussing postcapitalist futures or social movements trying to build (or "prefigure") a postcapitalist world. Granted, they often aren't very visible, but publications like Jacobin are a good way to keep up with these efforts.
Do you have any specific articles?
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> Social democracy cannot be replicated in countries like USA or Eastern Europe Why?
Because of mentality and being very prone to the too much free power makes one too cocky. We can actually see how it works when corporations get lazy and mismanage very hard.