Marx’ economic theories have a lot of good points. It’s just that all efforts to build a commie paradise on earth have proved futile. Maybe human civilization is supposed to be hierarchical and most people are doomed to be slaves to the system, kek
This process, caused by capitalism, has to occur before you can get to Communism. This was not happening in 1917 Russia or 1949 China or 1959 Cuba. You cannot have a proletarian revolution before capitalist immiseration has started to occur, which socializes the working class within capitalism. It's a very specific process and is only now beginning to occur (the "Great Reset").
The German Ideology
www.marxists.org
This “alienation” (to use a term which will be comprehensible to the philosophers) can, of course, only be abolished given two practical premises.
For it to become an “intolerable” power, i.e. a power against which men make a revolution, it must necessarily have rendered the great mass of humanity “propertyless,” and produced, at the same time, the contradiction of an existing world of wealth and culture, both of which conditions presuppose a great increase in productive power, a high degree of its development. And, on the other hand, this development of productive forces (which itself implies the actual empirical existence of men in their world-historical, instead of local, being) is an absolutely necessary practical premise because without it want is merely made general, and with destitution the struggle for necessities and all the old filthy business would necessarily be reproduced; and furthermore,
because only with this universal development of productive forces is a universal intercourse between men established, which produces in all nations simultaneously the phenomenon of the “propertyless” mass (universal competition), makes each nation dependent on the revolutions of the others, and finally has put world-historical, empirically universal individuals in place of local ones. Without this, (1) communism could only exist as a local event; (2) the forces of intercourse themselves could not have developed as universal, hence intolerable powers: they would have remained home-bred conditions surrounded by superstition; and (3) each extension of intercourse would abolish local communism. Empirically, communism is only possible as the act of the dominant peoples “all at once” and simultaneously, which presupposes the universal development of productive forces and the world intercourse bound up with communism.
Moreover, the mass of propertyless workers – the utterly precarious position of labour – power on a mass scale cut off from capital or from even a limited satisfaction and, therefore, no longer merely temporarily deprived of work itself as a secure source of life – presupposes the world market through competition. The proletariat can thus only exist world-historically, just as communism, its activity, can only have a “world-historical” existence. World-historical existence of individuals means existence of individuals which is directly linked up with world history.
This phenomenon is absolutely indispensable, and it is caused by the tendency of the rate of profit to fall under conditions of universal competition and the use of technology as a labor savings device as an increased proportion of economic activity. As profits decline, the capitalist class takes property off the workers (whether through zoning laws, or inflation, or taxation - any method they can) in order to boost their profits. It reaches a point where they great mass of humanity must do the dame to the capitalist class or die en masse. This is Marx's theory of Communism. It is a highly specific crisis theory of social transformation, and not some utopian political project to be implemented at will.
Now, does this tally with what we are observing in the Western economy and?
