Penetrating essay by @safeortrue (typical of @QuilletteM) takes critical theory seriously, unpacks it, and shows it to be dangerous nonsense, inconsistent with a humane & objective search for truth. Overused slogans & epithets becoming caricatures too.http://quillette.com/2017/12/09/white-women-tears-wilfrid-laurier-critical-theory/ …
Once most production and resource allocation is done by machines, Marx' idea that governments do no longer serve to protect the owners against the laboring masses and can be replaced by a democratic system of public self-organization is not totally implausible.