The communist revolution does not happen in Marx's mind because "good people" defeat "bad people" eventually -- there is no such thing as "good people" It happens because the structural contradictions that hold the ruling class together fall apart
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And then Scott, Mr. Rational Facts Man himself, in his constant search for contrarian ideas to out-insightful himself, comes *this close* to inventing the basic idea of Afropessimism Only of course he doesn't because the word "racism" is taboo to himhttps://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/06/asymmetric-weapons-gone-bad/ …
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The above blog post is him musing about the scary Lovecraftian idea "What if there are incorrect ideas that are so perversely attractive to the human mind that the *more* you think about them, the *more likely you are to be wrong*"
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"Such that people's naive, emotional rejection of certain ideas is more likely to be right than other people's obsessive lifelong expertise on the matter The experts are the ones who are the most wrong, because the reason they become invested is their attraction to wrongness"
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And the big historical example he gives for this is... communism! Which was once, in his view, a universally popular idea, and now has been irrefutably proven to be evil
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Even if he were right about this it'd be kind of useless to fucking bring it up now that all the hegemonic world powers agree with him and "won the argument" in 1991 huh But then maybe that's why he hasn't actually read the Communist Manifesto Gotta avoid those memetic viruses
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At NO POINT does he EVER apply this to his own community and to the hordes of people lamenting "I've spent my life trying to research the genetic basis of IQ and everyone keeps calling me a racist!" Why the hell would he He can tolerate everything but the outgroup
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