Capitalism's Fatal Flaw, and the Way Forward: Critiques of Marxian Theory.

Saturday, August 21, 2021

Critiques of Marxian Theory.

Critiques of Marxian Theory.

Dear Reader,

I recently posted the following response to a Quora question: “What are some good refutations to Marx?” –

My experience has been that the phenomenon which the OP identifies — of people with no grasp of Marx’s theory trying to refute that theory based upon ignorance and hearsay — is overwhelmingly rife in our contemporary society, drowning out the voices of those who have actually learned Marx’s theory, and provided a critical affirmation, and an immanent critique, of Marx’s work.

My view is that Marx’s work has significant gaps, that lead to practical tragedies, in the following areas —

(1) not having provided a clear, scientific anticipation of the “economic base” and the “superstructure” of the “society of associated producers” that he foresaw, and sought, hence also;

(2) not clearly distinguishing between state-CAPITALISM and the “society of the associated producers” that he both foresaw and sought, e.g., not writing about what would likely happen to Russia if the scenario he described in his letters to Vera Zasulich was NOT achieved;

(3) not living long enough write the book he kept promising to Engels and to Joseph Dietzgen on his dialectical method, made “accessible to the common reader”;

(4) not living long enough to complete even the “Capital” treatise of his planned 6+-treatise “Critique of [Capitalist] Political Economy”, i.e., the treatises on the Landed Property social relation of production/class, on the Wage-Labor social relation of production/class, on the modern Nation-State, on Bi-Lateral Foreign Trade between Nation-States, and on the World Market and Global Crises [& the resulting Wars and Revolutions, etc.], which would have placed his crucial “Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall” in the concrete context of the competition among capitals, and at the heart of the causation of global capitalist crises.

But, HEY, did you expect Marx to do everything in the realm of theory, and of the critique of capitalist ideologies, that humanity needs in order to rise to the next higher level of human flourishing?

Marx expected that others would continue the work that he had begun and way-showed.

Alas, the — albeit predictable — state-capitalist dictatorships and pseudo-Marxian state-bureaucratic ruling-class ideologies of the Leninists side-tracked the whole Marxian movement until the circa 1989 fall of “Soviet” Stalinism.

But the Marxian movement, under two-flank attack by both the “People Are Pollution”, ‘humanocidal’ ruling class of the [increasingly also state-]capitalist “West”, and the pseudo-Marxian, state-capitalist “Marx”IST dictators of the “East”, has as yet barely begun to resume, let alone to re-advance, the work of Marx’s actual theory.

For more information regarding these insights, please see --

www.dialectics.info

For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ -- see: