SOCIALISM: The Forbidden Ideology

Technology might make socialism actually work at some point. This is a hideous thing to consider, but just as sci-fi movies have pointed out for several decades, productivity could be increased with computer-triggered negative and positive reinforcement.

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What your are saying has merit. There was a Marxist theorist fron the 19th century, Rosenbaum, who believed Capitalism must be the first step in creating a Marxist/communist society.

Marxism dulls the aggressive and creative economic process so that there tends to be a stagnation at the level existant at the moment Marxism was imposed. Consequently, Marxism would alway fail without a developed economy to take over.

As technology advances we will one day see the point where the human race is serviced by self-maintaining machinery answering every need and every need at the push of a few buttons and a voice command. At that point creativity and effort will become obsolete and Marxism will become workable.

The thought of what kind of people this environment will produce is frightening. In one sense we now have a parallel environment where this is taking place. Institutions such as the welfare system and the university tenure system are producing environments where there is unconditional receipt if sustinance without need for effort or creativity and the people within that life style are degenerating into eternal mindless children incapable of any adult responsibility or activity other than momentary sex or drugs.

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