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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
communism is not utopian? i regard communism as a kind of godless christian paradise. it would work wonderfully if everyone was a saint. "here, have my coat." the abolition of private property, a central tenet of marxism, is in itself a utopia.
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And what about the golden siren songs of class collaboration that capitalism regularly offers the workers - resulting in the vast majority of them falling for the trap - when an economic shake-up takes place? Should we not refer to it as the trap of utopian stability that the working classes fall for regularly, being constantly promised that things will get better once the instability of the markets find a more regular flow, or they work harder at their own individual (
nota bene: not collective) emancipation?
Take the current recovery orchestrated by the established and emerging powers: By rights, China, a country that has been wrongly suggested on this thread is communist (it is in name, not in doing), wouldn't have to be dealt with in this crisis because its economic structure would be
de facto different than that of the other ''capitalist'' economic powers. The reality is that one of the key points of emergency that all these summits made clear is that in order to repair the sharply falling global economic growth, China and all the other emerging economies (Brazil, India etc), would have to be included in the talks more than before because the global balance is readdressing the distribution of production of capital more than ever.
In promising that things are being looked after, and an actual economical recovery will indeed take place, capitalist powers give the worker the illusion that this will automatically translate in a rise in jobs, which won't happen for years. If it will happen at all.