When people are younger in their teen years – new ideas are more of new news. Learning about Karl Marx at 16 is different than learning about Marx at 40. I being 41 learned about Marx back in High School – the topic is important, crucial, yet it gets up sold to old news, as of less consequence, as already decided as no longer a battle between Rich and Poor, Wealth and how it is achieved, the value and value subtracted from industrial practices, like those turned up by the industrial revolution.
Document about Political Ideas and Economics are consequential, have potential for greater weight than people might like to give them. People thinking they are just learning, talking about ideas from the past might think they have free capacity to theorize and talk about, yet there is potential for listening, greater weight given to words and ideas than one at 16 is likely able to fully appreciate. At 41 after multiple degrees in college, experience of wars in the World (as a citizen) I have greater potential to understand the impact for both good and bad, in both my ideas and my words.
I like to profit. I have not fully appreciated Communist Oppression or stagnation via being unable to change my position or status in life depending upon how hard I work. It is easy to think at 16 one comprehends everything they need to know to formulate ideas, and thoughts around the subject. If one looks at a system that claims Capitalism ideals and sees people on the streets suffering, while maintaining claims of Christianity, Golden Rule, does right by others has potential for feeling less than ideal in combination.
I have the capacity to comprehend how and why men or women at a younger age might value Marxism yet I also have capacity to comprehend how knowledge around the subject amplifies far less than ideally, especially at a young age. Political Climate and problems of the day factor into capacity to learn, to entertain ideas without being labeled a Communist Sympathizer, Potential Enemy.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 is an example of Profit and Capitalism gone wrong. People don’t always discuss the problems in Capitalism because they don’t want to be labeled a Communist Sympathizer, as against the system, as a potential threat in need of being disabled, limited. Maximizing profit at the expense of the less fortunate, less wealthy is why marxism gets traction at time, thus preventing companies from turning up maximized profit regardless of cost to public factors into and facilitates greater adoption of Capitalism on the world stage, and less adoption matters, factors into countries that are more like the Soviet Union, China than USA and Allies.
New countries, political instability factors into contested ground on the World stage – it gets easy to up sell everything to already established, perceiving the system as not subject to change, not currently contested might lead to inability to fully gauge and appreciate risk, potential problems involved with discussion and ideas, discussion in ideas in a system of claims Free Speech, but does not always reinforce Free Speech is not consequence free.
I want to be able to profit I want to be able to work and achieve more in life. I want the same for others and that factors into The Golden Rule. I want Free Speech that is actually Free, and delivering on that more ideally matters. We don’t always deliver on that ideally and that as a known factors into who wins and loses in society, and as I care about The Golden Rule I want others to be able to win too. I don’t want Free Speech to allow others to turn anyone’s words into a noose to hang them with. In a world that is international surveillance in, national surveillance in, nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons as in by design ideas and words, Free Speech not actually Free perceived more clearly might factor into safety, capacity to maintain support.
This document now has potential to be factored into the Marxism vs Capitalism debate. Will it turn up Capitalism in Combination with Golden Rule in more ideal ways, while still promoting a system that thrives in a competitive international environment (oppression cheap not all ideal competition in)? Will this document be provided to support other Capitalist and Democratic nations? Will this document get into the hands of oppressive regimes, regardless of safeguards?
One thought on “Marxism vs Capitalism”