Future of communism

[Latvian Communist]

What i am certainly sure of is that communism shall live on as a philosophy or view of the society. However, what seems to lie in clouds of doubt is whether some society will be able to form a social model with tendencies of communism or socialism for that matter. Marx always divides the societyinto two groups: the oppressors and the oppressed. When the oppressed are pushed too far, they unite and take over the power (letš not go into detail). The problem today is that around 70% of production takes place in the versatile sector of services, which characteristically employ a small number of people, thus dividing the proletariat into smaller groups and making it much harder to unite for the final battle. Would you agree with this line of arguing?

[redstar2000]

In the time of Marx and Engels, it seemed that capitalism would concentrate labor in larger and larger numbers; factories would literally get bigger and bigger.

This was prior to the invention of the electric motor...which made it possible to disperse production in much smaller units. Today, there are fewer and fewer factories that employ many thousands of workers and more and more of them that employ 500-1,000 workers.

"Units" of production in the service industry started out very dispersed and are, I think, now being concentrated. When a Wal-Mart "box" replaces dozens of small businesses, that concentrates hundreds of workers "in one place" where organizing becomes "easier".

I have no idea if all this advances or retards the communist project...I'm not even sure if it has any measurable effect at all. In the "age" of the internet, all workers are potentially "connected" in a way that Marx never anticipated.

So we'll see.

:redstar2000:

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