Some say that we are transitioning from an industrial age to an information age, and surely the advent of near-instant, global communication, software-controlled automation, robotics, and such were unknown in the time of Smith and of Marx. Yet it seems none of these apparently new things make any difference to how we reason about today's world of income, capital, and social relations. This is surprising and I would hope for an explanation.
Very interesting. Made me think. We are probably already there, that the states nowadays are only existing to raise armies to defend the global material interests of the capitalist classes with the idea that peoples are expendable and replaceable, as long as they essentially fund and staff the militaries. Their wellbeing as such matters no longer. The peoples also no longer can escape this situation by voting in new governments, as all candidates/parties essentially work for the capitalists and only offer red herring issues to differentiate themselves.
Some say that we are transitioning from an industrial age to an information age, and surely the advent of near-instant, global communication, software-controlled automation, robotics, and such were unknown in the time of Smith and of Marx. Yet it seems none of these apparently new things make any difference to how we reason about today's world of income, capital, and social relations. This is surprising and I would hope for an explanation.
Very interesting. Made me think. We are probably already there, that the states nowadays are only existing to raise armies to defend the global material interests of the capitalist classes with the idea that peoples are expendable and replaceable, as long as they essentially fund and staff the militaries. Their wellbeing as such matters no longer. The peoples also no longer can escape this situation by voting in new governments, as all candidates/parties essentially work for the capitalists and only offer red herring issues to differentiate themselves.