This statement has always been crazy to me. Even when I wasn't a Communist I didn't really understand this, since for the overwhelming majority of human history, we didn't even have Capitalism... Capitalism is around 400 years old, meanwhile recorded history is around 6000 years old.
And I'm not even applying materialism here, this was when I was a lib lmao
If you question people who say this they will say “sure we didn’t call it capitalism but people were trading and selling to become richer since forever!”. And you try to explain that markets =/= capitalism and you see their eyes glass over and their brains shutdown.
We say libs don’t know anything about communism, but they will die on a hill to defend capitalism and they know nothing about it either.
I mean just look at China. They teach Marxism to everyone and embed Communist Party cadres in every company and they're eating the first world's lunch as a result.
This statement has always been crazy to me. Even when I wasn't a Communist I didn't really understand this, since for the overwhelming majority of human history, we didn't even have Capitalism... Capitalism is around 400 years old, meanwhile recorded history is around 6000 years old.
And I'm not even applying materialism here, this was when I was a lib lmao
If you question people who say this they will say “sure we didn’t call it capitalism but people were trading and selling to become richer since forever!”. And you try to explain that markets =/= capitalism and you see their eyes glass over and their brains shutdown.
We say libs don’t know anything about communism, but they will die on a hill to defend capitalism and they know nothing about it either.
I maintain that Marxists are better at playing the game of capitalism than "capitalists".
Was reading some of Engels letters about the stock market earlier lol
I mean just look at China. They teach Marxism to everyone and embed Communist Party cadres in every company and they're eating the first world's lunch as a result.
Marxists won't waste as much time and money on fads that won't create value like NFTs and cryptocurrency either