The proletariat makes everything, controls every production process, outnumbers the bourgies 9 to 1, is almost universally literate, has seen multiple living examples of bourgies being overthrown, as well as countless more cases of capitalism leading to unspeakable atrocities, + it's in their interest (supposedly) to end capitalism.
Yet they still allow capitalism to persist. There's literally no excuse at this point, the proletariat is either evil or retarded.
I don't think it's ever been about capitalists. I think capitalism is about workers exploiting workers, capitalists are just (high paid) management.
Imagine being marx and engels thinking you just have to explain to the workkking kkklaSS how capitalism works and they'd free humanity.
The proletariat is a reactionary stratum unfortunately endowed with the historical destiny of liberating mankind. The job of the communists is to violently repress and command the proletariat with a united front of intelligentsia, peasantry, lumpen and haute bourgeoisie, and force them to do communism
6 posts omitted.>>787972Opium is supposed to make you feel good
>>787237They haven't overthrown capitalism because it's not currently materially possible, only when it is possible will the proletariat reach the consciousness to carry through the revolution, that's like saying why didn't we skip feudalism and go straight to capitalism, it wasn't possible according to the material conditions to say otherwise is utopianism, and no replacing one state with another and slapping the 'communist' label on it doesn't count as having actually achieved something.
>>788107marx and engels thought socialism was already possible in the west in their time
>>788121Yes its possible in the sense that it is the preceding mode of production to communism, but evidently it hasnt reach the degree of development necessary for it to 'blossom' just as it's impossible to go back to feudalism with the technological development we currently have it will be the same for communism, but we don't know when that will be so we must always agitate for progress and act as if it was immanent.
>>788123Isn't that a bit deterministic?
I think there were multiple historical junctures for socialist revolutions that failed due to the subjective factor primarily (poor strategy, poor organization, poor theory)