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Lecture #4 Marxist Politics

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Capitalism and the Problem of Thesis, Scarcity, Communism

Capitalism awakened the productive forces of social labor, how? By extorting surplus value on an unprecedented scale. Extorting surplus value in an environment of freedom and competition leads to chaos, inefficiency, and breakdown. So capitalism wipes itself out. Socialism comes to the helm. Freedom is abolished. And all powerful state takes over,. This all powerful state proceeds to generate surplus value much more efficiently. The result is an enormous surplus which makes possible the return to communism - not primitive communism. Now we can bring everything into the igloos, so to speak, cards and all the materials for cookouts and so on.

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