Why aren't capitalist countries becoming communist like Marx predicted?

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Because Marx was a brainlet leech who spent his final years seething that the strikes of his youth did dick all to make countries more communist like he wanted to happen and coped by saying "it would inevitably happen anyways, I am not mad your mad" like the loser he always was.

More seriously, because people, and therefore countries, are a lot more complex than Marx made them out to be and trying to reduce all the complexity down to just economic theory and creating a civilization road map based on "economic stages" was an inherently flawed methodology that ignored the MANY countries and civilizations that proved his road map wrong before he even created it.
 
Because it wouldn't turn out that way. Many capitalist countries reformed gradually, and working conditions continued to improve for first world nations. China and Vietnam even adapted capitalist reforms which sped their economies along. Especially when Mao's economic policies were nothing but retardation, so anywhere was an improvement. To an extent, the only communist countries that haven't really reformed are like North Korea, and they just call it Juche over there which originated from it (I don't understand much of Juche at all).
 
Because Marx’s theory that capitalism will inevitably led to socialism was delusional nonsense.

It actually leads to some shitty neo-feudal oligarchy. Like cyberpunk but without all the cool hackers, sexy punk girls and superpowers.

What a scam.
 
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It's in the middle, both styles became various degrees of capitalism and welfare states. So rather than 100% tax rate, it's 40%.

The reason is that this combined policy plays best for everyone. Corporations and government can blame each other for issues, corporations can bribe the government to control regulations favouring them, the citizen can be happy there are social safety nets while having a miniscule part of his wage kept.
 
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Why did Karl Marx predict
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Karl Marx did not make a falsifiable prediction, all he did was author a metaphysical myth.
The notion that "capitalism must become communism" was not derived from observation, but baked into a teleological system that redefined "history" as "deterministic march toward classless utopia"

Marx smuggled in a broken theory of value, denied individual agency by pretending "classes" can act, and pretended that violent expropriation is moral progress. He thought cooperation is coercion, productivity is parasitism, and he called that dogshit "dialectics"

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capitalist countries would inevitably become communist, and why has this not happened?
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Because reality isn't built on dialectical prophecy. Because theft scales badly. Because ethics is discovered. And because capitalism, properly understood, is what happens when you stop hitting peaceful people
 
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Despite everything, Marx was actually a believer in democracy and that it would happen slowly. He did say that some countries would have to have revolutions (and probably would have opposed Leninist Vanguardism), but in general he was a democratic socialist.

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I think this tweet does a weirdly good way of summarizing what happened to leftism.

Marx always looked at the world through the lens of Germany and in a way what happened in Germany happened everywhere. People from outside the working class took over Marxism and made it about "gay shit".

It all started in the Weimar era when the SPD party began to focus less on labor issues as they directed themselves at women's rights, transgenderism, homosexuality, etc. When the Great Depression hit the academic elites of the Social Democrats did nothing about the depression believing that they had no obligation to be the "doctors of capitalism".
Millions of workers became Nazis in response to this retardation and the world had to tard wrangle Germany. Germany in the 1920s was probably the closest we got to Marx as there was alot of German socialists before the war. Most of these 1920s thought leaders escaped to the west and spread this culture that weakened leftism with them.

After ww2 every Marxist party in the world would be taken over by totalitarians in Moscow and China to the point of just outright claiming the title of Marxism, and in the west the homegrown democratic Marxist movements all became extremely weak social democratic parties that focused on social issues. This was not helped by the working class of guys with hammers being replaced with everybody viewing themselves as middle class (including the guys with hammers).
 
no industrialized Nation has ever willing went into communism. Russia, China, Vietnam etc were feudal/non-industrial countries. The USSR forced communism onto eastern Germany and eastern Europe.

outright communist parties and movements either petered out in the US and western Europe or were crushed by the state (because commies are dangerous fanatic lunatics).
 
Because it didn't catch on. Communism died out and never made it to the west.
 
Man, I feel like I wrote a paper on this in college or something lol.

Basically, capitalism invented the joint-stock company, and then the modern corporation and managed investment funds.

Marx's problem ultimately is labour alienation. I.e. that the "capitalist" exploits someone's labour and doesn't adequately compensate him for that labour, etc. His solution is revolution and labour soviets governing manufacturing firms, and so that's what we saw in communism. For him, since the worker now votes for what the company does, his labour is now his "own", from like a broke ass obi-wan kenobi sorta point of view, and alienation is "solved" according to him. And that's cool for a 19th c. pov I guess...

Modern western, or at least american, capitalism has a high degree of participation in stocks. Some dumbass 19 year old commie wants to bitch about "the shareholders" as if they're evil shadow men or something, but the reality is, you are the shareholder in most cases. I mean even if you're not a consumer trader stonks bro or someone with a bespoke stock option in your own firm, you probably still have something like a 401k or some kind of managed investment fund where you have shareholder ownership in multiple companies managed by your investment manager. You are a capitalist. Even if you're a little dude at 25 or so, if you've been running your little 401k since you were 20, you probably have 20k-30k set away, and while it's not immediately available to you, you can usually lend to yourself from it, or even withdraw from it to do things like first home purchases or to avert disasters like eviction, etc.

And it totally fixes labour alienation. You, again, are the capitalist. That fund exists based on the managed stocks you own which are shares of ownership in "the corporations".

If things are fucked up for you, it's because you likely are either just not earning money to begin with (which would suck in the USSR too), or you're just not familiar with the financial instruments available to you. In the US though, there are infinite little means where you can become a partial owner of "the corporations", and use that to your advantage, and secure anything from real estate to your own retirement.

Because of all that, the people who are capable of organizing a revolt simply aren't interested because they don't have a need to, and the people who are bad off, are bad off because they're too stupid to make use of the instruments around them, and are much less able to organize a revolt.
 
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