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No. Life is not a Marvel movie. Instead, the world is driven by material conditions, and the continuous effect these conditions have in guiding future conditions. The capitalists overtook the fuedal lords not because they were more moral, but because of the steam engine and the expansion in industrial production. The Statesian north didn't free the slaves of the south out of any moral reason, but to gain access to more wage laborers better fit for industrial production. Socialism is overtaking capitalism because imperialism is dying, and rates of profit are falling.
There's no idealist "good vs evil." If you'd like, I wrote an intro Marxist-Leninist reading guide that might help!
I wanna live in whatever world you're talking about. It sure feels to me like fascism is overtaking capitalism.
The PRC is the biggest economy in the world by PPP and is beating the west in many metrics while the west is falling in those same metrics, and the PRC is socialist. Capitalism's decay compels the rise of socialism.
Yes
Yes but only sort of. The PRC as still ton of social inequalities, a ton of billionaires and many things I would consider basics in a socialist society like free education still are present. If anything they seem to keep getting more and more capitalist as time go on. I agree that the progress of China over the last few decades is still a huge win for socialism but I don't see the death of capitalism you seem to be suggesting any time soon
Socialism isn't equalitarianism, it's the workers collectively directing society, made firm by public ownership being the principle aspect. This is true, for China, and they are in the later parts of the primary stage of socialism, as shown here:
![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8997ea37-b698-473a-b402-1a4b62c5cbae.png
Capitalism globally rests on US Imperialism, and as that's dying the wheels of history are turning forward.
Does anyone know if Francis Fukuyama is doing ok?
Poor guy, he will never be free of that stigma XD