[ExI] Socialism

[ddraig@pobox.com]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 at 07:35, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> I don't see how anyone opposed to capitalism could get a foothold in
> America, the homeland of extreme capitalism


So, based on my limited understanding of Marxist theory, the idea is that
capitalism will become more and more concentrated, until a tiny tiny
fraction of the population owns everything, and everyone else owns nothing.
Thent he workers become more and more repressed until finally The
Revolution has started and the glorious Worker's Paradise is erected upon
the ashes of the Evil Capitalist Nightmare.  This is why communism was
expected to begin in industrialised Europe, not the agrarian states where
it was actually established (leaving aside Germany immediately after WWI).


So, from that perspective, isn't the US precisely the place where we would
expect communism to fire up?

Dwayne
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