Comment on If you want communism, you can start a commune
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 6 months agoYou’re making claims about a subject you are not an expert in, and refusing to read any literature on the subject.
I unfortunately don’t have unlimited time, so I am forced to refuse to read books that are unlikely to be relevant.
But also Capital is written that way to preempt arguments; it’s an academic work. His other works only suffer from 3 page long sentences that require significant contextual and historical knowledge of mid 1800s europe. Lenin is an easier place to start.
Then maybe can you point to a work that does not assume a 1800s economy? Also, Marxism was tried already by the Bolsheviks. It failed terribly. If there were no improvements made since, what is the point? While I like the scientific method, I am certainly not willing to try the same thing again and see if just as many people die a second time.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Capitalism kills far more people, by design. While the famine in the USSR was due to wide-spread drought, unlike the man-made famine that would kill millions in Bengal a few years later.
You cannot understand present society, let alone have a model that can predict future developments with any reliability if you don’t learn history.
But if you want to understand economics, you’re gonna have to read a book on economics.
Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism is good if you’re more interested in higher-level detail than Marx talking about linen.
State and Revolution is more history and provides analysis of communist projects.