Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Lost Illinois, but He Changed Chicago [View all]The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)The rational 'homo economicus' is a fiction.
Marxist/Leninist is something of a misnomer, as Leninism has little to do with Marx. Lenin was one of the first to try and repair Marx, to redeem the idea of inevitable revolution. He decided it was profits from the colonies kept things afloat for the European industrial powers. He then had to try and explain how a peasant revolt in a place with only a scanty proletarian element could be the revolution Marx predicted would naturally occur when the proletariat in industrialized societies came into its full power of practical control over the engines of the economy, such as mining and railroads and steel and the like. The result is mere theology, like erecting the edifice of the Trinity atop a few simple biblical lines wrenched from context, and bears no more relation to Marx in fact than the pomp of the Roman Church does to the congregation of the first apostles.
"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden