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Anark does (in my view) a well-cited and very polite refutation of Socialism4All's response to one of his off-the-cuff videos, and a vastly more polite response to BadEmpanada than he deserves.

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[–] Chana@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

PS in the poorly organized (lmao) video that goes on way too long (I read the transcript instead), it fails almost immediately by deciding that the metric of whether something is capitalist is whether there are various forms of alienation per Marx, something that they also fail to describe accurately later. Imagine declaring that you read Marx, Lenin, etc, and your summary of what capitalism is, allegedly per Marx, not about the social relations of production and how they are organized, or class conflict, but simply how connected you are to the commodity you produce. But more importantly, it fails to recognize the basic Marxist conception of transformation through contradiction, of the fact that not everything simply changes at once, but builds incrementally even after rupture through opposing forces. In other words, the Marxist conception of immediately post- revolutionary society is not particularly prescriptive, and is definitely not an instantaneous destruction of all wage labor relations or even most aspects of capitalist society - just as capitalism and its conquests revolutions occurred over a period of 500+ years, never fully displacing feudal relations until extremely recently, but instead usually working under/alongside. It was the establishment of capitalists as the major ruling class that led to the more rapid (but still centuries-long!) conquest.

In other words, it is a tellingly ignorant conception of the Marxist description of post-revolutionary society that it would simply shed all aspects of capitalist society, and in fact, it just plainly flies in the face of what Marx actually said about the topic. This is because Marx's conception is quite a bit more realistic, that what emerges from workers becoming the dominant class will not be a retreat from all of the relations and associated productive capacity they live in, but a reorientation that places actual dominant power in their hands. In fact, Marx specifically predicts that workers will rationalize otherwise capitalist production, slowly freeing it from the anarchy of the market, not throwing out all of the "hitherto" (gotcha!) relations immediately.