/lit/ - Literature

>>20229481
Are you intentionally misinterpreting what I have written? Note how I wrote that marxist thought is archaic, i.e. that it is out of date. Am I to understand that you think marx was the end of thought? Are you one of those leninist types that believe in progress only up until a certain point? We have moved beyond Marx.
You raise a good point on market activity - indeed states have some power to regulate and thus control market activity. This power was most prevalent before the invention of the internet and globalization. Mercantilism was the embodiment of this, yet you give modern China as an example. Strange, considering how woefully corrupt and economically backwards China is beneath the surface.
Recent technological developments and coming cultural changes will free the individual from the tyranny of the state.
>>20230615
You misunderstand how the economy actually works. The 'masses' paying rent only helps you indirectly, and taxes are a small share of what goes towards wealth distribution. Every OECD nation is in huge amounts of debt and funds its liabilities through issuing debt. In theory, and on paper, the government spends a large amount of its 'surplus' (see: debt) on transfer payments (wealth redistribution); in practice much of this money is wasted on bureaucratic bloat and random bullshit before it even gets to you.