Submitted by TributesCom in Elections_and_Voting

"Silly tankie. It's only been a year... he needs to fix all of Trumps crap"

"Noooo stoopid tankie. It's a midterm year. He can't pass anything too radical or he'll turn off centrists and lose the midterm"

"Well it's year 3 and he can't pass anything with a divided house. It's not his fault"

"Listen It's an election year. He can't pass anything radical or he'll piss off the swing voters"

"FUCKING TANKIES WHY DIDNT YOU VOOOOOTE NOW A REPUBLICAN IS PRESIDENT AGAIN"

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lettuceLeafer wrote

This is pretty based. It's nice that we at least agree on something.

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TributesCom OP wrote (edited )

No more elections, only revolution. Engels explains how this "periodic crisis" will continue to occur with more and more severity until the abolition of capitalism (particularly, markets as a means of distribution) in anti-duhring part 3.

We have seen that the ever increasing perfectibility of modern machinery is, by the anarchy of social production, turned into a compulsory law that forces the individual industrial capitalist always to improve his machinery, always to increase its productive force. The bare possibility of extending the field of production is transformed for him into a similar compulsory law. The enormous expansive force of modern industry, compared with which that of gases is mere child’s play, appears to us now as a necessity for expansion, both qualitative and quantitative, that laughs at all resistance. Such resistance is offered by consumption, by sales, by the markets for the products of modern industry. But the capacity for extension, extensive and intensive, of the markets is primarily governed by quite different laws that work much less energetically. The extension of the markets cannot keep pace with the extension of production. The collision becomes inevitable, and as this cannot produce any real solution so long as it does not break in pieces the capitalist mode of production, the collisions become periodic. Capitalist production has begotten another “vicious circle”

People are forced to always increase efficiency in order to continue making a profit. This causes problems because production doesn't exist in a vacuum and people have to buy the things that are produced in order to actually generate that profit. Eventually this mismatch becomes so great and the economic bubbles that are generated burst and cause much of the previous development to go unused. The only way to avoid this is to remove profit as a motive altogether, or in other words abolishing markets completely. Markets cannot be abolished through reform, only revolution to install a communist vanguard.

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Fool wrote

You had us, and then you go quote Engels, you could at least read modern Marxist texts.

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