Originally posted by ubermich
get the fuck off captain's back.
we need dreamers in this world to effect any change. zach de la rocha? che guevara? the leftist sophomore counselor at my school whos a blatant socialist in a conservative, catholic prep school? theyre fucking amazing. ballsy to say the least.
Ideas that are not well thought out can be very dangerous. We don't need dreamers. We need good creative problem solvers. Our world progress often in tiny steps, not very big steps. Big leaps usually lead to disaster. How many bills in congress that get passed are considered big leaps? A few but not too many. Less than 1%. Some of those big leaps are not good bills, like welfare for example. Some may argue social security as well.
with regards to communism, i buy half of it. i think marx is right about dialectical materialism but wrong about how the dictatorship of the proletariat will magically vanish when the poor, vicious bastards in control are suddenly enlightened.
dialectical materialsm is true though. capitalism is evolving. the domestic? capitalism of the early 20th century is definitely different from the globalizing, international capitalism of the 21st. corporations are becoming mcuh more powerful than nation-states with their little friends the IMF and WTO.
of course, you might say that there really is no distinction between capitalism now and capitalism 80 years ago, but the fact of the matter is, even if they are fundamentally the same system, part of it is changing, evolving, growing. towards what? i dont know....to believe in the dictatorship of the proletariat may be a far-fetched solution, but i think thats where people get bogged down in marx. they criticize his solution and rob him of credibility in their own minds, when he IS correct about some things. he accurately predicted the rolllercoaster business cycle, and the excesses of monopolies, etc. maybe we should focus on that and not the fact that his solution is crackpottish.
Communism is all wrong with the way the economy is implemented. Believing it would work is uneducated. I highly doubt Marx invented "business cycle". You talk like it is a bad thing.