jwb

I'm also curious how elph thinks Marx was right that revolution which leads to communism is the inevitable result of capitalism.

He thought it was most likely to start in the most industrialized Western countries like France, England, Germany. When he wrote the manifesto in 1848 that was an overt call to revolutionary action and he was anticipating revolution in these countries within the coming decades.

There were attempts and those attempts failed. He was disappointed at this and died before any serious revolution happened that succeeded in bringing on a regime that was nominally in favor of communism.

Eventually those dreams largely fell flat with the collapse of the Soviet Union. China abandoned the planned economy.

And in the Western countries that he actually anticipated would trend towards communism naturally due to the working conditions in industrial capitalism, we saw some moderate labor reforms but other than that we're no closer to communism today than in 1848.

If anything we are deindustrializing and the very dynamic Marx thought would lead to communism is increasingly becoming less and less relevant in the wealthy capitalist countries.

We're tending towards a gig and service economy which lends much less weight to collective bargaining and unionization. So I'm failing to see how you think his predictions were right.