↩ Homepage of the site 'What to do with your life?' Why are communism and anarchism not a solution?As often repeated on this site, dealing with a problem involves carrying out the following process: CommunismWe refer to Marx's analysis, in Capital :
Anarchism
Our analysisIn both cases, we want to remove power. That of money in the case of communism, that of the state in the case of anarchism. In doing so, we ignore that power is the product of social ambition, inherent in human nature, which therefore cannot be deleted. Let us note at this stage that it is not because the solution they propose is naive and dangerous that the demands (the observation box) of communism or anarchism are not perfectly legitimate. In other words, once we have discredited these two systems, the problem is not resolved, and the argument 'the problem will resolve itself within the capitalism'remains false and morally shocking. Throughout history, we have experimented, without decisive and stable success over time, with various methods to try to attribute power to a well-chosen person, who would exercise it with probity and competence. Even today, many believe that the solution lies in a better system of designation of those who exercise power. This vision ignores three essential points:
In the end, the solution therefore necessarily consists, not of eliminating power, or seeking to attribute it to the right person, but of regulating power at the level of its exercise, that is to say supervise the decision-making process. The real problem is not who, but how. Go deeperSee the question close to this one: Refer to the questions: See the paragraph 'The philosophical question emanating from progress' inchapter 1 from the book From capital to reason. Finally, an effective solution is presented in the second part from the book From capital to reason.
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