Originally Posted by
AssHatZombie
marx was into concentrating power.
No, he has been used by people into concentrated power, but Marx himself was into dispersed power. The concept of concentrated power comes in with Leninism.
Marx believed society would go through a series of stages, with industrial capitalism being one of the later stages. There would be no move towards communism, before an industrial revolution under capitalism. The problem Lenin ran into was Russia had not gone through the industrial revolution yet. The timeline was all wrong, but they did not feel like giving up the revolution.
So Lenin came up with the idea that power would be centralized with a smaller inner core of party members that would guide the society through an accelerated industrial revolution. The power would be concentrated in a small group.
Originally Posted by
AssHatZombie
what you call the entity doesn't matter.
Maybe not to you, but to communists it is all that matters.
Originally Posted by
AssHatZombie
end fiat currency.
The economy is huge. Anything other than fiat currency would be too small to really capture the entire economy. Which means that the entire economy is tied to the ups and downs of one or two percent of the economy.
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