If you're not familiar with Richard Wolff, he's a communist who refers to the millions killed by Russia and China as "experiments socialists learned from".
His arguments are purely based on emotional rhetoric, where, because he and fellow communists have good motives, communism should be pursued to the ends of the earth because capitalism is not a perfect system.
Even putting aside the fact that we have historical proof demonstrating that socialists don't learn shit from previous socialist regimes, there's pretty solid proof that humans in general don't learn from previous generations. Besides the obvious conclusion of combining "Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it." with "History repeats itself." there's things like:
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
Two thousand years later and the man still ain't wrong.
If you go through the owners of publicly traded companies, you'll find that the players that matter are pensions, retirements, and various funds representing massive groups of small investors. The people own everything, but the assests are managed by a detached class of bureaucrat.
Those funds are run by the same globalist managerial class that extends into academia, media, tech, civil service, etc. Everyone here recognizes the outsized influence of poorly paid bloggers, political staffers, marketing reps, lowly HR drones, etc. The Cathedral, managerial state, globohomo, deep state, or whatever you want to call it, is a dictatorship of the proletariat.
I stumbled on this debate that he was in. All he says the entire time is:
"We've totes learned from all of the socialist/communist failures of the past!"
"Bosses are literally the worst!"
"People are so mean to Marxists and totes don't understand us!"
It's funny because he keeps going back to how horrible bosses are and that everything should be employee owned. It's basically his only point. And every time he does his opponent just keeps pointing out that people are free to start/work for an employee owned companies in a capitalist system. At one point, after harping about how there shouldn't be bosses who tell you what to do and every action of the company should be decided democratically, he admits that there would still be people in managerial roles in his socialist utopia.
Even he doesn't believe he has anything substantial to say. That's why he talks in that put on angry voice. He can't convey rationally how evil capitalism is, so he's forced to try to convey it emotionally.
Everyone who has ever been in a meeting with more than one person knows that it's a completely horrible idea to decide the direction of a company democratically, let alone the minutae of everyday-work.
If you're not familiar with Richard Wolff, he's a communist who refers to the millions killed by Russia and China as "experiments socialists learned from".
His arguments are purely based on emotional rhetoric, where, because he and fellow communists have good motives, communism should be pursued to the ends of the earth because capitalism is not a perfect system.
https://youtu.be/YJQSuUZdcV4
Sooo.... Mengele did nothing wrong?
Even putting aside the fact that we have historical proof demonstrating that socialists don't learn shit from previous socialist regimes, there's pretty solid proof that humans in general don't learn from previous generations. Besides the obvious conclusion of combining "Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it." with "History repeats itself." there's things like:
Two thousand years later and the man still ain't wrong.
The people currently own the means of production under a dictatorship of the proletariat. Where is the utopia?
If you go through the owners of publicly traded companies, you'll find that the players that matter are pensions, retirements, and various funds representing massive groups of small investors. The people own everything, but the assests are managed by a detached class of bureaucrat.
Those funds are run by the same globalist managerial class that extends into academia, media, tech, civil service, etc. Everyone here recognizes the outsized influence of poorly paid bloggers, political staffers, marketing reps, lowly HR drones, etc. The Cathedral, managerial state, globohomo, deep state, or whatever you want to call it, is a dictatorship of the proletariat.
I stumbled on this debate that he was in. All he says the entire time is:
"We've totes learned from all of the socialist/communist failures of the past!"
"Bosses are literally the worst!"
"People are so mean to Marxists and totes don't understand us!"
It's funny because he keeps going back to how horrible bosses are and that everything should be employee owned. It's basically his only point. And every time he does his opponent just keeps pointing out that people are free to start/work for an employee owned companies in a capitalist system. At one point, after harping about how there shouldn't be bosses who tell you what to do and every action of the company should be decided democratically, he admits that there would still be people in managerial roles in his socialist utopia.
Even he doesn't believe he has anything substantial to say. That's why he talks in that put on angry voice. He can't convey rationally how evil capitalism is, so he's forced to try to convey it emotionally.
Everyone who has ever been in a meeting with more than one person knows that it's a completely horrible idea to decide the direction of a company democratically, let alone the minutae of everyday-work.