Well this "revolution eats its children" scenario seems too me - i have too little faith in the TikTok people - too optimistic. Give them some candy and some privileges, smear a little honey on the top of the turd and they will eat it with relish - and film it for Tiktok while they eat it, to tell everyone how great the honey shit tastes.
Have you ever considered that this is a flaw inherent to Marxism itself? Your attempts to resuscitate Marx as a paragon of 'liberal virtue' strikes me as coming from someone in the grips of pretty severe cognitive dissonance. Even if we grant that Marx didn't intend for the failure of the transition from socialism to communism to result in failure, it always has. That is a fact that cannot be denied.
We can tie ourselves in knots over the meaning of 'abolish private property', as Evangelical Christians deliberate over multiple interpretations of the Gospel, but to average prole who hasn't spent years devouring Marxist literature, it seems like an imperative and a fundamental tenet of Marxism.
I also don't understand how one could l envision moving towards a classless and stateless society without the kinds of authoritarianism you rightly criticise. The 'levelling' *requires* not only authoritarianism, but totalitarianism: everyone needs to be on the same page or it just won't work. Again, Marx may not have *intended* for that to be the case, but it is nonetheless a requirement. If Covid has taught us anything, people don't spontaneously rise up and overthrow totalitarian regimes, the regime always dissolves internally before they eventually do revolt.
By that juncture, people would be so jaded and cynical that they would be right not to, and probably wouldn't, tolerate the imposition of another ideological and material imposition on the lives they're trying to rebuild – which is what communism, rightly or wrongly, requires.
If you can figure out a way to transition to communism without any top down restructuring of society and of people's psyche, please let me know – I'm interested.
Well this "revolution eats its children" scenario seems too me - i have too little faith in the TikTok people - too optimistic. Give them some candy and some privileges, smear a little honey on the top of the turd and they will eat it with relish - and film it for Tiktok while they eat it, to tell everyone how great the honey shit tastes.
Have you ever considered that this is a flaw inherent to Marxism itself? Your attempts to resuscitate Marx as a paragon of 'liberal virtue' strikes me as coming from someone in the grips of pretty severe cognitive dissonance. Even if we grant that Marx didn't intend for the failure of the transition from socialism to communism to result in failure, it always has. That is a fact that cannot be denied.
We can tie ourselves in knots over the meaning of 'abolish private property', as Evangelical Christians deliberate over multiple interpretations of the Gospel, but to average prole who hasn't spent years devouring Marxist literature, it seems like an imperative and a fundamental tenet of Marxism.
I also don't understand how one could l envision moving towards a classless and stateless society without the kinds of authoritarianism you rightly criticise. The 'levelling' *requires* not only authoritarianism, but totalitarianism: everyone needs to be on the same page or it just won't work. Again, Marx may not have *intended* for that to be the case, but it is nonetheless a requirement. If Covid has taught us anything, people don't spontaneously rise up and overthrow totalitarian regimes, the regime always dissolves internally before they eventually do revolt.
By that juncture, people would be so jaded and cynical that they would be right not to, and probably wouldn't, tolerate the imposition of another ideological and material imposition on the lives they're trying to rebuild – which is what communism, rightly or wrongly, requires.
If you can figure out a way to transition to communism without any top down restructuring of society and of people's psyche, please let me know – I'm interested.