I haven’t proposed a totalitarian state. This is something that you inferred from what I’ve wrote.
Marx didn’t propose a totalitarian state either. His ideas still lead to a totalitarian state. Ideas have consequences. If you don’t know how the alternative will work to the status quo you want to destroy, than it makes sense to assume a bad outcome.
Marx’s ideas were perverted by Lenin and the totalitarian mess we saw last century derived from that.
Also, I’m not advocating the destruction of the status quo but its transformation, its transcendence. I’m non-violent and I don’t believe in forced societies. My hope is that we will outgrow the old ways.
Marx’s ideas were perverted by Lenin and the totalitarian mess we saw last century derived from that.
That doesn’t change that Marx carries some responsibility for what happened.
Terry Pratchett wrote somewhere that one person writes an innocent book about political philosophy and then the people who read the book don’t get the jokes and other people have to pay for it in blood.
People payed in blood for the revolution in Egypt and now the freedom of speech in Egypt is less than it was before the revolution.
Basically technology provides too much power to do things. If people don’t act responsibility with the increased amount of power that humans accidents will happen.
It might be an UFAI that destroys human civilization or it might be another thread which we understand even less. The important point is that the cost of mistakes and not acting fully responsible rise.
Marx didn’t propose a totalitarian state either. His ideas still lead to a totalitarian state. Ideas have consequences. If you don’t know how the alternative will work to the status quo you want to destroy, than it makes sense to assume a bad outcome.
Marx’s ideas were perverted by Lenin and the totalitarian mess we saw last century derived from that.
Also, I’m not advocating the destruction of the status quo but its transformation, its transcendence. I’m non-violent and I don’t believe in forced societies. My hope is that we will outgrow the old ways.
That doesn’t change that Marx carries some responsibility for what happened.
Terry Pratchett wrote somewhere that one person writes an innocent book about political philosophy and then the people who read the book don’t get the jokes and other people have to pay for it in blood.
People payed in blood for the revolution in Egypt and now the freedom of speech in Egypt is less than it was before the revolution.
This is like accusing a blacksmith for a murder someone did with a knife he created.
Responsibility lies with the ones who act in a destructive way or the ones who coerce others to act destructively.
Marx wasn’t at all reticent about the necessity of dictatorship and terror.
If that’s the reigning philosophy I don’t think humanity survives the next 200 years.
What do you think would happen?
Basically technology provides too much power to do things. If people don’t act responsibility with the increased amount of power that humans accidents will happen.
It might be an UFAI that destroys human civilization or it might be another thread which we understand even less. The important point is that the cost of mistakes and not acting fully responsible rise.