Comment on Centrist Democrats Rebuke Party’s Left Wing: ‘We Are Capitalist, Not Socialist’
bluGill@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
They should claim to be liberals. Capitalism is a statement that Marx invented because he knew it was a losing battle to be against the freedom of classical liberalism. Since them capitalism has been made useful in economics in the same way spherical cows are useful in physics. However capitalism as most countries practice it is a result of liberalism not a goal in itself.
Marx did not invent the term “Capitalism.” It did originate with critics like Proudhon, who Marx was also critical of.
Is “liberalism” the primacy of private property relations in society? Many progressive liberals would disagree with you, while many Marxists would agree with you
Triumph@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Just because Marx gave a name to "an ownership class that undercompensates labor and pockets the spoils" doesn't mean that condition didn't or doesn't exist.
bluGill@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Marx is one of a long string of 'experts' that don't value work that isn't obviously the result of working with hands. Mind work is very important
Triumph@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Never said it wasn't. I don't think he did either.
Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Liberals will not read Capital and then say Marx didn’t consider something he explicitly covered in Capital.
Juice@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
You are deeply, misinformed or perhaps intentionally misleading re: your characterization of Marx’s ideas. Marx’s theories on mental labor appear in his earliest works, and continue through his later, more developed ones:
Capital V1, chapter 6 – where Marx defines labor power
Your characterization of Marx’s ideas, that he is creating artificial divisions between different kinds of labor, is in fact a tendency of capitalism that Marx identified and criticized at great length.