tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post5642533118815026137..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Skidelsky on Keynes and QueensUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-60495650732293044022009-08-06T23:35:24.682-04:002009-08-06T23:35:24.682-04:00Excellent - powerful - post...Too many generation...Excellent - powerful - post...Too many generations have wasted their lives in this foolish pursuit.<br /><br />The excerpt brought tears to my eyes for how stupid we are - how committed we are to our own misery.<br /><br />I would only point out, that Marx had this vision as well - although in his case it was much darker: The age of scarcity is put behind mankind when wage work itself becomes an impossibility.<br /><br />"Empirically, communism is only possible as the act of the dominant peoples “all at once” and simultaneously, which presupposes the universal development of productive forces and the world intercourse bound up with communism. Moreover, the mass of propertyless workers – the utterly precarious position of labour–power on a mass scale cut off from capital or from even a limited satisfaction and, therefore, no longer merely temporarily deprived of work itself as a secure source of life – presupposes the world market through competition. The proletariat can thus only exist world-historically, just as communism, its activity, can only have a “world-historical” existence. World-historical existence of individuals means existence of individuals which is directly linked up with world history."<br /><br />I assume Marx will prove more accurate in the final analysis...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com