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Interesting take. I certainly think capitalism has gotten worse and worse as it becomes fascism, but to me that seems like an inevitability. As Marx predicted, capitalism means accumulation of resources and power which then leads to fascism so they can maintain that power. I don't see any possible way for capitalism to exist without this happening. So I am very curious what your definition of capitalism is, and what your ideal form of it would take. Appreciate the discussion :) ✌️

Quick issues with Marx—

Marx was a structuralist. He theorized that permanent structure determines outcomes. 

Marx’s most important critics are poststructuralist leftists like—

Derrida [TLDR- structure can always be repeated differently by an individual]

Foucault [TLDR- structure is not permanent but trickles up variably from regulation of sex, sexuality and punishment] 

Noam Chomsky [TLDR- our brains, as shown by being hardwired for generative grammar, need varying and fluid interventions to maintain state power]

Henry Louis Gates Jr [TLDR- European modernity and literary criticism is incomplete and wrong, as critiqued by signification, a sophisticated African tribal intellectual criticism]

That list can go on. Leftist takedowns of Marx are much more important to know than right-wing ones.

Marx has brilliant and correct critiques— for example, that all value in capitalism is social and therefore arbitrary/theocratic—

But his meta-structure is too simple to characterize all struggle.

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