It's not that "good people" take the reins of power and benevolently let the working class go free It's that it becomes impossible for a ruling class to give orders to the working class People in general are empowered enough that anyone can say "take this job and shove it"
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No one becomes "good", everyone remains the same selfish shitheels they've always been, it's just that if we get enough progress in society EVERYONE gets the POWER to act on their selfishness and that means the people who've been forced to work get to walk away and not starve
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I'm not saying this to *defend* this idea In fact, this idea, baldly stated, is vulnerable to critique and mockery in a lot of ways that the "romantic" view of "Why not put decent people in charge" is not It has been mocked and taken apart by better people than Scott
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I'm just saying that is what Marxism says This isn't esoteric theory, this is very well known, you just have to read the *most famous* works of Marx (the Communist Manifest, Capital) to get it front and center Or talk to a Marxist and ask them to explain it to you
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And Scott *doesn't know this* and he's still arguing with the Straw Communist in his head Your 3rd-grade teacher telling you "The problem with communism is, they expect everyone to be good, while capitalism expects people to be greedy and cleverly harnesses their greed"
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This aphorism is one of the dumbest fucking things people say, especially because the people who say it don't even believe it -- defenders of capitalism *constantly* appeal to philanthropy on the part of actual rich people as a defense of capitalism -- but Scott takes it as fact
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It's just a shining example of how Scott, like his partner-in-arms Jordan Peterson, thinks he's really fucking smart and really fucking "fair" and empathetic and he doesn't even faintly live up to his own ideals
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He's spent exactly *zero time* even actually trying to learn what Marxists *actually think*, much less debate them in "good faith" or "steelman" their position The same applies to critical race theory, feminism, and all the other bogeymen of the Slatestarcodex community
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Not quite true, he read the Very Short Introduction to Marx (or whatever it’s called) and pulled thousands of words out of it to denounce Marxism
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This is an actual real thing that happened: Siskind read a Very Short Introduction to Marx by Peter Singer - not a Marxist or specialist on Marxism of any kind - and drew impressively broad conclusions about the entire 150 year (or thereabouts) corpus of Marxist thought from it
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Pfft the actual Communist Manifesto is public domain and it's less than half the length of Singer's book at 50 pages
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne
Ah, if only Jordan Peterson had that attention span
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