MD tviti od 18.5.2017
1/Naj vas naslov ne zavede. Preberite, tudi v VB so…Kaj je še danes aktualno; kaj je nujno storiti, kaj pa neumno.
2/Problem Marxa niso napačne analize temveč rešitve. Ni problem, da se kaj naučimo od Marxa, temveč da se nič iz zgodovine. Zato bi eni spet
3/Komunizem: Lenin »želel dobro…a ustvaril zlo«. Diktatorji: Stalin, Mao, Tito, Castro, Che Guevara-nasilje+skorump https://www.portalplus.si/2200/lenin/
The Economist May 11th 2017 (Excerpt by MD)
. http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21721916-shadow-chancellors-comment-provoked-scorn-yet-marx-becomes-more-relevant-day-labour
Karl Marks argument is that the capitalist class consists not of wealth creators but of rent seekers—people who are skilled at expropriating other people’s work and presenting it as their own. Marx was blind to the importance of entrepreneurs in creating something from nothing. He ignored the role of managers in improving productivity.
But a glance at British business confirms that there is a lot of rent seeking going on. In 1980 the bosses of the 100 biggest listed firms earned 25 times more than a typical employee. In 2016 they earned 130 times more. …CEOs sit on each other’s boards and engage in an elaborate exchange of such gestures. The political system is no less rife with rent-seeking.
Marx predicted that capitalism would become more concentrated as it advanced. Google controls 85% of Britain’s search-engine traffic. Marx was also right that capitalism would be increasingly dominated by finance, which would become increasingly reckless and crisis-prone.
What about his most famous prediction—that capitalism inevitably produces immiseration for the poor even as it produces super-profits for the rich? “Immiseration” is too strong a word to describe the condition of the poor in a country with a welfare state and a minimum wage. Yet many trends are worrying.
The problem with Marx is not that his analysis is nonsensical, but that his solution was far worse than the disease. And the problem with Messrs Corbyn and McDonnell is not that they have learned something from Marx but they haven’t learned anything from the past hundred years of history. Mr McDonnell is a fan not just of Marx but also of Lenin and Trotsky. Mr Corbyn described Fidel Castro as a “champion of social justice”. A leaked draft of the Labour manifesto resurrects defunct plans to renationalise industries and extend collective bargaining.
It would be a mistake for the Conservatives to ignore the lessons of the master himself. As Trotsky once put it, “You may not be interested in the dialectic, but the dialectic is interested in you.” The financial crisis suggested that the economic system is worryingly fragile.
The genius of the British system has always been to reform in order to prevent social breakdown. It means preventing monopolies from forming: Britain’s antitrust rules need to be updated for an age where information is the most valuable resource and network effects convey huge advantages. It means ending the CEO salary racket, not least by giving more power to shareholders. It means thinking seriously about the casualisation of work. And it means closing the revolving door between politics and business. The best way to save yourself from being Marx’s next victim is to start taking him seriously.
