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The Marxist explanation Jiang describes for why workers do not naturally act as revolutionary communists.
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false consciousness
The Marxist explanation Jiang describes for why workers do not naturally act as revolutionary communists.
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He argues that communism helps capitalism destroy monarchy, religion, nationalism, and democracy in ways capitalism cannot openly do itself.
diagnosis
He argues that Marxism makes socialism more extreme and confusing through false consciousness, global class struggle, abolition of property, and a vanguard party, which discredits socialism rather than merely advancing it.
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"...Marx says, okay, all right, the major problem with this is false consciousness. Okay? You think that this is a natural process, but capitalists,..."
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"...up power right so if the party is capable of creating consciousness why don't they just switch to a different false consciousness okay so..."
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"...people. Religion is the great evil of the world. Religion creates false consciousness, therefore we must destroy all religion, right? And if religion is..."
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"The class consciousness is more important than national identity, right? Now democracy. No, no, no. This is bad too, right? Because workers cannot defend..."
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"extreme the intention is to discredit it to make it illegitimate to destroy the idea all right so if you think about it according..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on the false capitalism-communism dialectic: communism appears not as capitalism's opposite but as a weapon that clears away monarchy, religion, nationalism, democracy, and social democracy so capital can...
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