Socialist Democrat: ‘Human Evolution … Marching Towards Progress’
17th July 2018
The Other McCain fisks our Latest Marxist Darling.
It’s obvious that no one ever previously asked Ocasio-Cortez a serious question about economics. She was not educated, but indoctrinated, in far-left ideas at Boston University. Her assertion that “the people who create value in society are not experiencing any portion of the value that they are creating” is straight-out Marxism, and is as false now as it was when Marx published Das Kapital. Even the poorest members of a free society benefit from the wealth and technological advances created by a capitalist economy, and socialism (“democratic” or otherwise) is not “progress.” Ocasio-Cortez here is invoking two Marxist myths — capitalism as a system of “exploiting” workers, and the idea of history as progressing in stages toward communist revolution.
This Marxist notion that history is moving inexorably in one direction (and that direction leads to socialism) is the essence of the ‘progressive’ ideology (hence the name). The fact that socialism, once ‘attained’, leads to poverty and social disintegration never seems to make in onto their radar.