Somewhat relevant here. I was reading a commentary by Acharya Rajneesh. He says:
First basic flaw in the foundation of marxist thought is this. It presumes that humanity is poor and hungary because someone else is rich and full. It assumes that had it not been for those filthy and hateable rich, everyone must have been able to live well. This is the most basic misunderstanding of a confused marxist mind.
Humanity is daridra by default, was daridra since beginning. Life was always a struggle when whole humanity was just a huge commune and whole earth was shared. There were no nations, no concept of personal ownership, even children were not personal. But humanity suffered from all the same challenges and more.
So the baseline situation of humanity is and always has been Daridrata. Then, some who had vision, and had a zeal and desire to break themselves away from that situation, worked themselves out of it. If some are rich today, it is largely because of their zeal and not because of having "looted the poor".
Second fundamental flaw is this. Marxism (and to large extent capitalism too) denies that anything exists in life beyond what the telescope of economics can see. everything in nature has to be simplified to the demands and supply. For a marxist mind, life is this gross body and its greatest needs are the mundane and basic needs alone. There are no greater potentials than fulfilling the bodily needs, there can be no greater calls of existence. One has to be 'useful' or 'productive' to justify one's existence. One can not just "exist" for existances own sake. No place for meditation, no scope for religiousness, no place for rising above the body and its needs. This denial of any higher existence is the second flaw in the understanding of life.
First basic flaw in the foundation of marxist thought is this. It presumes that humanity is poor and hungary because someone else is rich and full. It assumes that had it not been for those filthy and hateable rich, everyone must have been able to live well. This is the most basic misunderstanding of a confused marxist mind.
Humanity is daridra by default, was daridra since beginning. Life was always a struggle when whole humanity was just a huge commune and whole earth was shared. There were no nations, no concept of personal ownership, even children were not personal. But humanity suffered from all the same challenges and more.
So the baseline situation of humanity is and always has been Daridrata. Then, some who had vision, and had a zeal and desire to break themselves away from that situation, worked themselves out of it. If some are rich today, it is largely because of their zeal and not because of having "looted the poor".
Second fundamental flaw is this. Marxism (and to large extent capitalism too) denies that anything exists in life beyond what the telescope of economics can see. everything in nature has to be simplified to the demands and supply. For a marxist mind, life is this gross body and its greatest needs are the mundane and basic needs alone. There are no greater potentials than fulfilling the bodily needs, there can be no greater calls of existence. One has to be 'useful' or 'productive' to justify one's existence. One can not just "exist" for existances own sake. No place for meditation, no scope for religiousness, no place for rising above the body and its needs. This denial of any higher existence is the second flaw in the understanding of life.