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[-] Juice@midwest.social 3 points 10 hours ago

So no, no one understands it.

What was the last nail, exactly? I don't see how swapping out neo-liberal drivel with "scientific Marxist drivel" would be any improvement

[-] Emmie@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

https://josephheath.substack.com/p/john-rawls-and-the-death-of-western read it

I want to emphasize that several of the greatest minds in political philosophy of the 20th century spent the better part of two decades working the salt mines of Marxist theory, trying to make the “exploitation” critique of capitalism work and every single one of them gave up and became an egalitarian. Surely that should count for something! Anyhow, there’s no need to take my word for it, the library is full of books.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -3 points 10 hours ago

Probably the failure of the USSR to compete with "capitalist science".

[-] Juice@midwest.social 2 points 9 hours ago

Wow 70 years of history is so flat, it just folds right up in your pocket like that, stunning. Its possible you've left a few details out

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -1 points 9 hours ago

You claimed to be a communist yet you literally just defended a dictatorship, lmao.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 0 points 7 hours ago

I did neither of those things, literally

[-] untoasted@toast.ooo 1 points 8 hours ago

The ussr managed to get nearly all of the firsts in the space race while spending less than a tenth of what the US spent to lose nearly all of the firsts in the space race.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Cool cool what did that earn them by the 70s? How well off were they into the 80s? Switching to oligarchy capitalism didn't help them, though, they still used the Energia Engines from 1988 until 2017, but where they really struggled was Chemistry and Medicine.