<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 2:10 AM ddraig--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 at 07:35, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span>I don't see how anyone opposed to capitalism could get a foothold in America, the homeland of extreme capitalism</font></blockquote></div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix"><font size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>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). <br><span style="background-color:transparent">So, from that perspective, isn't the US precisely the place where we would expect communism to fire up?</span></i></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Yes, if you <span class="gmail_default" style="">t</span>hink Karl Marx had anything intelligent to say<span class="gmail_default" style="">.</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> I don't,</b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><b> the man has a lousy record at making predictions that pan out. The idea that Marx could give us any insight about what we can expect of the AI singularity is ridiculous. </b></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div><br></div><br>
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