Commiunism

Why return it? Just bring it home

great woman theory

Barter within primitive communism was literally a very early stage of commodity production, advancement and generalization of which turned into capitalism.

The act of exchange already implies a degree of private ownership (as in, whatever is being bartered isn’t part of the social stock that’s free for the taking if needed), there might be traces of value present within the exchange (i.e. equivalence of trade subconsciously measured by something as to prevent trading a single berry for a stone chair) and yada yada.

It wasn’t capitalism because goods were mainly being produced for different reasons, but the act of barter was definitely a development towards commodity production, and by extension capitalism - after all, it’d be absurd to think that it came out of nowhere.

Fascism, if you look at Mussolini’s Italy

I’ve read some of his most major works (technofeudalism, another now and his account of the Greek debt crisis) back when I was still a leftist and looking back the amount of bs he spouses is astonishing, selling more snake oil than Henry George and his “one simple trick”.

Capitalism is literally a system of commodity production (production for exchange) and due to the nature of commodities markets get created. “The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities”, its unit being a single commodity." is the very first sentence in Capital by Karl Marx.

What Varoufakis is saying here is that if stock market or private ownership transfers get restricted, suddenly it’s not capitalism anymore which is not true at all, it doesn’t change why things are produced or what they lead to and also indirectly calls state capitalism (where the ownership is (largely) nationalized) as being anti-capitalist.

yeah, it’s a shame great man Lenin betrayed everyone by not pressing the communism button as soon as Bolsheviks and proletariat took state power, didn’t use mind control magic on the entire world to ensure a global proletarian revolution and immediately made the state irrelevant so it withered away

almost as if the form that proletariat power takes shape in is irrelevant to the “withering away of the state” concept, if you took the time to read anything about it you’d see that it’s predominantly economic transformation that matters

If only there was theory written about it, supported by a scientific method of historical analysis that was way ahead of it’s time…

Kill proles of le bad nationality, hell yeah