Marx’s Loophole

So, I mentioned in a previous article that I’ve been agonizing over leftist infighting issues for — well — a few years now. Despite the sharp tone of my previous posts and some others, it should be noted that I don’t hate modern communists — in fact, I generally agree with a lot of their aims (with the exception of the small number of dictator apologists). I am, however, significantly more comfortable around people who talk about democratic socialism and who generally aren’t demanding a one-party state, because of my previously stated vehement opposition to totalitarianism.

But today, I want to take a stab at a greatly revered dead old white male theorist’s basic ideas. This is another article I’ve been considering for some time, but I’m going to endeavour to make it less lengthy and meandering than my last release. (Especially because I’m not entirely sure most of my readers are here for extended musings on political theory from an admitted non-expert.)

In a nutshell, then, Marxism doesn’t work and is incomplete, and we on the left need to stop making everything try to fit its exact circumscriptions.

There are two relatively simple reasons why I would put this relatively obvious theory forward, and they both come down to the scientific fact that we are social animals.

Money represents attention; both represent power

In other social species, such as chickens, chimpanzees, bonobos, or dolphins, hierarchies naturally develop. Before I learned about…