Comments by "Thurso Berwick" (@thursoberwick1948) on "Asianometry"
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@ozymandiasultor9480 it doesn't- "absolutism" means that only one point of view is considered correct. When you have that, then anyone who disagrees with it is in trouble. Its other problems are "the end justifies the means", and seeing people as blocs not individuals, meaning that individual suffering is seen as meaningless and sometimes necessary. (Even though societies, class etc do not exist without the individual.)
Because it cannot succeed, shortly after a revolution, it has to look for scapegoats, to explain its failures, often people within the movement itself. It can either do that, or water down its policies, which the NEP did and China has.
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@blondezeke6640 I'm not "nihilist". Unlike you, I don't believe humans are just machines. However there are those who do, and if the whole transhumanist show gets on the road, then your theories will be as meaningless as mediaeval philosophers discussing how the supposed celestial spheres.
The bourgeois vs proletariat binary is an increasingly dated concept as AI comes in and (manual) labour disappears. There are predictions that could happen by 2040 or 2050, if not earlier.
These apply as much to modern capitalism as Communist theory:
First step: stop thinking of people as economic or social units, and see them as capable of things that can go beyond mere economic production. Art and culture are sterile if tied purely to such a philosophy.
Second step: admit that if the rights of individuals are abused, then so are the collective's, because there is no collective or mass without individuals.
Third step: admit that absolutism, and the inability to look at points of view other than your own, inevitably leads to tyranny. You have no right to micromanage the lives of others.
Fourth step: there is no "inevitable" flow to human history, we can be back to the Stone Age or extinct by the end of this century.
Fifth step: the idea that the end justifies the means will also lead to cruelty and murder. If you condone that or commit atrocities, they will be with you until your dying breath.
I suspect this is wasted on you. But try thinking outside the box, that may be what saves us.
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