WHAT DID MARX GET RIGHT? (NOTHING) He articulated class as a conflict rather tha

WHAT DID MARX GET RIGHT? (NOTHING)

He articulated class as a conflict rather than as genetic differences in ability that the aristocracies since the dawn of western civilization had correctly observed. Hence human animal > slave > serf > freeman > burgher > church(nobility) > aristocracy (peerage).

It’s not that his observation was new, its that his observation was wrong. The east and the west succeeded in no small party by the continuous reduction of the size of the underclass by upward redistribution of reproduction.

Today we know that each person in the underclass is six times as costly as any individual in the middle class can produce in surplus of his consumption.

There is a reason Marx is taught as fantasy literature of historical curiosity only: he was wrong about almost everything.

The problem is quite different: the middle class seizure of the state under capitalism under the rubric of equality and democracy is incompatible with the evidence: at every standard deviation in ability, humans are demonstrably superior in every way. So much so that at two standard deviations, the ability to communicate on other than trivialities disappears.

Marx created a fantasy, as did Boaz and Freud. Why? the same reason that Maxwell, Menger, Darwin, Spencer, Nietzsche, were right: the middle class seizure of power DID upset the natural order. The natural order being a hierarchy of the classes with the aristocracy organizing the suppression of parasitism driving everyone into the market to survive; the middle class experimenting, inventing, financing, entrepreneurship, planning, organizing, and collecting the resources of which labor is merely one input.

What marx got mostly wrong, is that all the value is created by the middle and upper class, and the working class is the chief beneficiary of organizing them to produce consumer goods that they can now afford to purchase because they lack the ability to perform the middle class and upper class functions otherwise.

That’s the science of it.

The people who benefit from consumer capitalism are the working class. My ancestors were far happier with their higher status in previous generations than the relative equality with the lower classes under consumer capitalism. And imagine how the aristocracy feels.