To End Racism and Police Brutality, End Capitalism!

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117. Your fear of Marx is a caricature you've created in your mind...

Marx is a guide for working class power and the battle between Labor vs Capital. When the guide is no longer needed ... the working class - as a whole - will decide their own destiny. To be perfectly blunt...mixed economies sound very good while they last. If you take note of the realities... you will find the very racism and nationalistic type setup that you are describing. Some of the Scandinavian model countries are now being subjected to the pressures of Neoliberal austerity and gains are being lost.

Without a change in the power structure and who has control of the commons - that serve at the alter of Capital rather than the workers and people as a whole - there's not going to be any "mixture of Socialism and Capitalism" that doesn't leave the Socialism part of it in the dust in the long run.


"But it is not the highness or lowness of wages which constitutes the economical degradation of the working class: this degradation is comprised in the fact that, instead of receiving for its labour the full produce of this labour, the working class has to be satisfied with a portion of its own produce called wages. The capitalist pockets the whole produce (paying the labourer out of it) because he is the owner of the means of labour. And, therefore, there is no real redemption for the working class until it becomes owner of all the means of work -- land, raw material, machinery, etc. -- and thereby also the owner of THE WHOLE OF THE PRODUCE OF ITS OWN LABOUR."

--Friedrich Engels