Marx May Have Had a Point

Hitting the mainpage for the first time, Black Sabbath writes "While communism has been declared dead and buried (with a few stubborn exceptions), Karl Marx's diagnosis of capitalism's ills seem quite bang on the money. Harvard Business Review blogger Umair Haque lists where Marx may have been right." It's a pretty good read once you get past the author's three paragraph disclaimer that he is not a communist. The MIT news also ran a short interview discussing the economic trends in August this morning.

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Re:Nothing to surprising

[jmorris42]

> And it does so because there is no democratic government tamplate for:

Here is your mistake number one. Democracy is a stupid idea right off the bat. Which is why the guy said "A Republic, if you can keep it" walking out of the Convention. The Founders, unlike today's products of government education, understood the difference and knew Democracy always ends the same way, the plebs figure out they can vote themselves bread and circuses from the public treasury.

> 1. Bring the capitalism;

And if your step two had been, "2. END PROGRAM" you would have been correct. But of course you are just as full of fail as this Harvard socialist (oh no, Communist is a dirty word, I'm just a socialist, progressive, liberal, anything but a filthy COMMIE) who has never worked a real job.

All the government has a responsibility to do is create an environment where we can PURSUE happiness. That means create a sane, moral and knowable set of laws and enforce them equally. The Rule of Law is ingredient #1 in a successful capitalist society. Then the government defends the citizens from threats foreign and domestic. After that it should mostly get the hell out of the way.

> 2. Regulate it in such way that most profit can be gained from doing what's really needed
> (although we start to see this with tax cuts for less carbondioxide vehicles);

And who decides where the most profit can be gained? Who decides what is really needed? That is the fatal conceit of the progressive/communist mind. The A type Democrat always believes him/herself a better species of being, born to rule, to know by dint of their superior Harvard/Yale education what is good and what the lesser B type Democrats should be prevented from doing... for their own good of course. The ruled always disagree on those things, force is resorted to and unless the commies are kept from gaining the power of the gun mass graves and reeducation camps are ALWAYS the end state. ALWAYS, no known exceptions.

> 3. (Probably he most important point:) hand out tax money to people that want to start a business that's
> good for society and while you're at it: don't fscking own it and hand it a monopoly/unfair advantage.

Same mindset as your #2 but so full of epic Obama scale fail that beating you up over it feels like kicking a special kid.

The market makes mistakes because the actors are humans and thus subject to all human failings. But the market corrects over time, that is what it does and it is as relentless as water on stone. Government on the other hand is also made up of the same human actors, but because it has a monopoly on the use of force is much slower to realize its mistakes and thus to correct them. Until you understand that basic Truth you are destined to create only misery any time your ideas see implementation. Perfection is impossible. What is possible is to design a system which can operate in an imperfect world populated by imperfect humans. That system is a Republican form of government given the absolute minimum power required to perform those few things that the Free People associating freely can't do for themselves.