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Re:Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism’s flaws is surprisingly re... by Lionsion on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:39PM (#16990223)
> Marx's comments on capitalism are still useful. His solutions didn't work out well.

> Russia ... China ...

IIRC, those "solutions" weren't his. They were dictatorships that took up central planning with a veneer of Marx.

> China now seems to have something that works, after a long painful period of Maoism.

Contemporary China has nothing to do with Marxism. It's basically an oligarchical state with its own business interests that rules over a capitalist economy.

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Re:Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism’s flaws is surprisingly re... by jeffreyrogers on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:53PM (#16990330)
Centralization is kind of inherent to communism though.
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Re:Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism’s flaws is surprisingly re... by Lionsion on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:15PM (#16990501)
> Centralization is kind of inherent to communism though.

Care to elucidate? My understanding it that only seems to be true if you exclusively argue from the examples of historical 20th-century regimes that labeled themselves "communist," but that's flawed perspective.

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Re:Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism’s flaws is surprisingly re... by jeffreyrogers on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:41AM (#16994898)
Marx says as much in his writings, calling for the centralization of credit, communication, transport, factories, agriculture, and education in the state.
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Re:Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism’s flaws is surprisingly re... by AstralStorm on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:48AM (#16992888)
Collectivism specifically. At some point centralisation is unavoidable as the whole thing would be unmanageable.

Whether it is technical, legal or political (or all of the above) differs.

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