The West (NA and Western Europe) have been by far the most advanced capitalist countries for a long time, but
(i) there has been no socialist seizure of power
(ii) for western european countries, they had a significant communist movement when it was backed by the USSR. After the latter's fall, they disintegrated
(iii) for the anglosphere, there never was a significant communist movement at all
So, what is the materialist explanation for this? According to a simple, straighforward Marxist logic, these countries should have the most developped proletariat and thus should be leading in terms of 'socialist experiments'. These countries have had many 'Marxist intellectuals', famous internationally recognised ones. And yet, one struggles to see a movement emanating from them. From the Western proletariat, we get absolute nothingness. From the Western 'Marxist intellectuals', we just get endless bitching about how Stalin and the USSR was bad.
Is there something lacking in the conventional understanding of class struggle?
While I do not agree with the 'civilisational' arguments, does history show us that there is something about 'Western civilisation' which is less conducive to socialism/communism? (On this issue, I am relating to chud-fash narratives, but rather Emmanuel Todd's study on family structures of different demographics for example, which he argues played a role in the development of socialist regimes in the East and not the West).
Leftypolaks, discuss. I want to be enriched.
12 posts and 1 image reply omitted.>>2739634Please elaborate.
flood detected shitty buggy website >>2739639Technological determinism provides a more robust explanatory framework for historical transitions than ideological class struggle because it grounds social change in measurable, physical realities rather than subjective consciousness. Arguing that class struggle alone can force a new mode of production without the prerequisite technological infrastructure is fundamentally philosophical idealism the belief that the mind precedes and shapes matter.
>>2739646>class struggle aloneclass struggle is never alone though
it is linked with the mode of production
>>2739638Imperialism allows the bourgeoisie of western countries to take a tiny fraction of the unfathomably large super profits gained from it, to buy off large sections of the western proletariat and increase living standards in their countries across the board. Thus stabilizing their society for the time being and pushing off the conditions that would lead the proles to revolution