Comments by "DXR" (@MrDXRamirez) on "Marxist Economic Theory Easily Explained w/Richard Wolff" video.
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Right, his development is the same as millions who went right to the source as a way of making sense of the Cold War. Too much propaganda was going around then as now on all sides and making up your own mind was critical.
So, why doesn't a capitalist simply end world hunger and still have billions left over? No skin off his nose considering accumulation would replace such an expense. What makes a man upon acquiring private property decide to be inhumane and can the will of a person be more powerful against the force that makes one not abolish world hunger is answered?
There are many answers to this question from the right and one from the left, Marx's answer?
As private property controls the individuals, as wealth, private property is forced to maintain its own existence and the existence of its opposite, the working class. Private property is the positive side of the opposition. Once you understand this dialectic and apply it to history, the Cold War, police and state repression, all the US wars are actions defending the existence of private property as wealth, in effect Americans never had a government (State) for, by and of the people, is a incredible revelation to behold. Understand the other dialectic from the position of the working class it's self-destructiveness is its maintenance as a class constantly in the midst of degradation as a revolt against that degradation', a field day for the courts, police and psychologists, both legal and illegal drugs is a revolt to which it is forced by the contradiction between its humanity and its real situation. Then the oppressed working class, the refugees, the victims of natural disasters still not recovered, the incarcerated black men in America, the subjugation of women and children to sexual violence, the deluded, the spoiled to the hilt people, the masochists, racists, bigots, pundits, priests, politicians, exists to maintain the class system and the cries of the oppressed wretched of the earth move along life as destructive social elements and private property the conservative element of the whole dialectic becomes super developed. The propertied class and the working class express the same human alienation, this is the 'something is wrong' feeling people get with capitalism.
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