Karl Marx dixit
Posted by bordalix Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:33:00 GMT
In Das Kapital Karl Marx writes:"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism."
This was written in 1867. I'm not a communist (on the contrary) but this sentence makes me think.
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This could be endlessly discussed. There are people that say they couldn’t find it in Das Kapital. Maybe Marx never said it. Others say this was said by an american who was launching a reeducational programme in the US, to make kids try the communist way of thinking and acting. I think the problem isn’t who said it, it’s really what this means. In a finite world, populated by people - unpredictable beings with ups and downs - a system that is established to make the richer and bolder people more powerfull will never fulfill the ambition for peace, freedom and community that the vast majority of humans desire. We had the promises of God’s salvation a few centuries ago, then the Empire’s idea, then the Machine’s liberating power idea, then the free market idea, and human life quality has just sank. There is always some wonderful promise in the landscape, Obama and the green revolution is just another one. In my view, any solution should be based on the scientific analysis of natural patterns, not on the need for power of falling nations and men.
That Marx quote is a HOAX. It has been repeatedly debunked on the web. Marx never said anything close to that in Capital, or anywhere else. Tip off - there was no such thing as consumer “technology” in 1867. The scenario imagined in this quote has nothing to do with Marx’s thoughts on the transition from capitalism to socialism, it is a fabricated quote designed to scare people.