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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Smart vampires do read and understand marxist theory. They apply it to become more powerful ghouls.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Absolutely agree, but they aren't making the waves they ride. They are still subsumed in the general thoughtlessness of market forces.

EDIT: When I think of a class that is conscious of Marx, I unironically think of modern China's CCP. When they say they are still transitioning to socialism I believe them. From my standpoint (take with huge grains of salt) is that their program is capturing Capitalism in a kind of Nuclear Reactor. Just enough class antagonisms (capitalist success, hires more workers, worker wages going up incentivize productivity investment, rinse repeat) to increase productivity while using their placement on company boards as a kind of Control Rod to prevent those antagonisms from spiraling into class conflict/warfare.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

You may be interested in reading China Has Billionaires.