As man started living in communities, to contain flagrant behavior of the members, communities started making rules. This is socialism. — Ashwin Poonawala
Capitalism is another way of arranging economic activity. In capitalism, the operation and direction of the economy is the responsibility of those who own factories, mines, railroads, etc. The object of capitalism is to extract a maximum of profit (surplus value) from the labor of workers. Capitalists are generally a small proportion of any community. Capitalists hate the idea of workers being in charge. — Bitter Crank
Capitalism is essentially economic terrorism. — Bitter Crank
"My dialectic method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite. To Hegel, the life-process of the human brain, i.e. the process of thinking, which, under the name of 'the Idea', he even transforms into an independent subject, is the demiurgos of the real world, and the real world is only the external, phenomenal form of 'the Idea'. With me, on the contrary, the ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind, and translated into forms of thought."
Das Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx (Hamburg, 1887)
"Denial of the individual right to own property is the correct antithesis to failed Western government. When governments fail due the massive accrual of property by an elite privileged minority, perhaps the removal of rights to property altogether is the necessary change in the social contract which can rebalance the society. Core to Marxism is the idea of a ruling bourgeoisie that over time, exists in an escalating state of conflict: In its rational form, it is a scandal and abomination to bourgeoisdom and its doctrinaire professors, because it includes in its comprehension an affirmative recognition of the existing state of things, at the same time, also, the recognition of the negation of that state, of its inevitable breaking up; because it regards every historically developed social form as in fluid movement, and therefore takes into account its transient nature not less than its momentary existence; because it lets nothing impose upon it, and is in its essence critical and revolutionary."
Das Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx (Hamburg, 1887)
If you wish to consider socialism, the first step is to consider its origin in Marxism. — ernestm
I think you are talking to someone else. That's nothing at all to do with what I wrote, which is the philosophical derivation of socialism in the tradition of Western empiricism, not its historical forms. — ernestm
If you wish to consider socialism, the first step is to consider its origin in Marxism. — ernestm
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