Comments on: Marxism remains dangerous nonsense

By: Marty H.

Marty H. — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 14:13:36 +0000

David Foster, self-reliance and the ability to create an independent life in agrarian settings was considered virtuous. The “King” takes its toll and the banks firgured out how to rig the game against the small-holder. Having worked on one some many years ago, had the taxes and financial rents been removed, it would have been an interesting lifestyle option.

By: Michael van der Riet

Michael van der Riet — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:06:24 +0000

The rising tide of capitalism floats most boats, not all. To switch metaphors, some people are going to fall into the cracks. The 19th century saw huge growth in GDP as well as massive unemployment. Tim Worstall in one of his famous fallacies (he’s much better at detecting the fallacies of others than at thinking up logically consistent economic theories of his own) insists that the worker made redundant by technology is now free to be redeployed to more productive work. For much of the Industrial Revolution, automation progressed faster than the economy’s ability to provide employment. It could take years and decades for that displaced worker to find alternative work. Marx saw this all too clearly. Perhaps he’d read Blake’s poem “London.” He saw capitalism’s evil side. Marx and others created the labor movement in opposition to capitalism and it is now the dominant political force.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 02:52:32 +0000

This was written in 2004. In 2004, many things were much less clear than they are now, in 2023. 2023 is much more strange and unpleasant than 2004, and there are many strange and unpleasant things about 2023, and there are many much stranger and unpleasanter things still to come, but one nice thing about 2023 is its brutal honesty: for whatever reason, today’s public figure, as compared to the public figures of 2004, has vastly less polish and social filter and a much greater tendency to go before a camera and emit tactless chains of reasoning like some sort of otherworldly sperg.

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Personally, I am in absolute awe of that forehead. Envious. Shaking.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:43:40 +0000

Sounds like more of a critique of industrialization than of capitalism.

Regarding being happy at work, how many people would be happy as agricultural laborers or, at best, as very small-scale farmers?