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[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

There's no utopian vision advocated for by Communist philosophers. They talk exactly about how this would come through. So yes, they speak about it as an achievable and feasible thing.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

And yet it's been 200 years since the 'Imminent' downfall of capitalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_and_claims_for_the_Second_Coming

Same energy

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

As marx put it, the only way capitalism would survive is by keeping an infinite growth. Tech is a prime example of that phenomena, where new needs are being created out of thin air: subscriptions, software, etc... Cars, phones have begun to be necessary. That's how capitalism survives still today: growing more and more by creating new needs for the individual. Except this growth is at the expense of finite ressources, and this is where we're gonna hit a wall.
Maybe this explains we haven't seen a capitalist collapse yet. But with today's ecological concerns, it seems closer than ever

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