Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Critical Based Theory #7 | Does Neo-Marxism Actually Exist?" video.

  1. The 20th century Cold War established the Market-Economic Welfare State, which was the synthesis of Capitalism and Communism. Saying you're a Marxist these days (kind of like saying you're a lasseiz-faire capitalist) is a lot like saying you're a Monarchist. You're simply a quaint relic of a bygone era, that history has passed by. If you'd like a new dialectic to pursue, one that hasn't been determined yet but instead is actively working itself out in the national and international politics of the current day, I'd recommend Liberty-minded Democracy vs. Authoritarian Bureaucracy. In other words, instead of rehashing the more or less settled question of the Market in an economy, you could point your musings towards the role of Expertise in politics. The answer is not "Experts must run everything". The answer is not "Expertise must always be ignored". What, exactly, will the proper balance be? What mechanics will it involve? How will individual freedom survive? From Xi Jinping's central planning vs the West, to Parents vs. Teachers, to Brussels vs. Brexit, to Trudeau vs. Truckers, this is the common thread running through our most important political questions of the day. A free and intelligent discussion of these topics, along with careful and honest observations about what people trying and whether it works, might actually save us the kind of conflict we saw during the 20th century. One can hope, anyway.
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