cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36828107

ID: WookieeMark @EvilGenXer posted:

"OK so look, Capitalism is right wing.

Period.

If you are pro-capitalism, you are Right Wing.

There is no pro-capitalist Left. That’s a polite fiction in the US that no one can afford any longer as the ecosystem is actually collapsing around us."

  • JuiceEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    That would be great if it weren’t definitively proven to be otherwise. Just because you aren’t familiar with Karl Marx doesn’t mean he didn’t write extensively on the subject. Specifically you could look at critique of the Gotha Program by Karl Marx, Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg and State and Revolution by Lenin for comprehensive arguments against your view.

    Even the ruling class, which once had many socialist-y sentiments among them, hasn’t subscribed to your views since WW2. I used to make arguments similar to yours, but if I followed through and tried to prove those views the only “evidence” was either just experts making claims to that effect, or people literally misconstruing data to suit that assumption. Its almost as if the consensus reached by the experts is itself a way of hiding the true relationships produced and reproduced for and by capitalism.

    • JargonWagon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Not arguing, just not quite understanding what you mean when you said, “That would be great if it weren’t definitively proven to be otherwise.” Which part of my comment(s) are you referring to?

      I appreciate the way you’ve written your reply. Too many here (and in the world) are hostile and combative with their words, whereas you’re seeking actual discourse, and I thank you for that. The world, and especially the USA, needs more of that. I also appreciate the book recommendations - I like to challenge my views and the views of others, for it’s not entirely beneficial to be trapped within an echo chamber. I’m aware of Marx and Lenin, but not of Luxemburg. Thank you again.

      • JuiceEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        Appreciate your response, and I agree: there’s like a toxicity on the left. Some of it I can try to account for, Mark Fisher wrote about it a good deal in some of his essays, but confronting it I have the same problems that you might, I get banned from left spaces or dogpiled. From my investigations, I would say that a great deal of this framing, often bearing the title of “Marxist” is anything but, which isn’t a condemnation of anyone’s beliefs, since most people on the left, including progressive liberals are moved by deep injustices in society. And anyone moved by injustice is my comrade, of not today then surely in the future. But I do think the point of Marx has been lost, since so many Marxists deploy a sort of reasoning that Marx himself criticized and all but condemns.

        Its true we all have an ideology to reckon with, I think its a consequence of the world we live in vs our ability or willingness to live with it. Its a big question that has plagued me for over a decade, but also driven much of my intellectual development. I hope the challenging and development of your ideas on your journey is just as fruitful, and maybe a little easier or more pleasant than I’ve experienced. Unfortunately, the times being what they are, many lessons will come hard for all of us, I’m afraid.

        Sorry for any ungenerous interpretations of your intentions or intellect or anything like that. Its not my intention to like win debates or be petty, but being someone who thinks about politics a lot, it comes with the territory, I’m afraid. I try and improve.

        Thanks for the discussion!