Marxism limited the possibilities for industrial creativity, so the Russian Volga could not compete with the German Mercedes Benz.
Author: Dr. Farid Yunus, Retired Professor of Islamic Anthropology and Islamic Philosophy, California State University (USA), Member of the Sangar Advisory Board.
Like a sociologist.
I am a political and cultural anthropologist, who studied in Europe and America in two directions. I am very surprised that some Afghans, without having read the book Capital (although we read about Marx's failures during his lifetime and can say that we saw with our own eyes his failure when the Berlin Wall was taken down), consider him a wise and vigilant theoretician.
One of the problems with commoners is that without deep study, they blindly follow others. For example, some people applaud Mr. Surush, who is a professional liar and has deceived people with his poetry and philosophy. This is the man who, without scientific evidence, called the thought of Muhammad, the leader of Islam, imagination. It's the same with Marx. First, from the point of view of sociology, that is, the relationship between sociology and psychology of Marx's theory, it has been proven that it has no practical aspect. I am trying to write this topic in a simple way so that the younger generation will be aware of these machinations and tricks called the proletariat. The simple explanation is that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, to speak to people at the level of their minds.
A theory is successful when its implementation yields positive results. Marx's theory failed in Soviet Russia and Russia was saved from this fraud called Marxism and Leninism. In China, it also failed, and as a result of the progress of the theory of neoliberalism, China was forced to create state capitalism, otherwise, it would have collapsed like Soviet Russia. To study neoliberalism, please read David Hervey's Neoliberalism, how the West was able to indirectly save China from the yoke of Marxism.
Now briefly, so that everyone has the patience to read, I will briefly write this incomplete and inhuman theory, which, instead of saving mankind, enslaved the free man in order to fulfill his responsibility to the younger generation.
First, Marx failed to foresee the progress of capital expansion, not only by the capitalist but also by the people. Today you can see the development of capital by people in Western countries.
Marx failed to predict the value of the worker in relation to capital. Today you buy repair material for, say, a hundred dollars, and pay the worker three times the cost of the purchased material. Today an American worker earns more than a university professor.
Marx did not see that the basic control of capital does not mean that he foresees the basic superstructure of society by capital, that millions of people have become businessmen by the expansion of capital. The best example of a major superstructure under capitalism was the rapid expansion of West Germany after World War II with American Marshall Plan capital. Today, hundreds of Afghan Marxists live in capitalist countries!!!
Marx imagined that the proletariat would destroy the bourgeoisie and the exploitation of the worker and its hierarchy would disappear, while the bourgeoisie and its hierarchy would develop in a different form and a few powerful families would rule the economy of the world in such a way that Marxists marvel. Please read The Committee of 300 by Dr. John Coleman, translated into Farsi by Dr. Yahya Shams.
The fact that masses of people were sent to prison, exiled, and killed in the name of the proletariat is a separate conversation and goes beyond the scope of this topic.
Marx called religion (his goal was Christianity) the opium of the masses, while the capitalist and Jesus united to destroy Marxism and not only buried Marxism, but the strongest political parties today are Christian. Please read the book American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips.
Marxism limited the possibilities for industrial creativity, so the Russian Volga could not compete with the German Mercedes Benz. It is this free thought that opens up the creative potential of production. For years, a worker who worked for the government for pennies, and you can see the results.
Now that libraries are available to us, wouldn't it be better to study more rather than accept everything blindly? What does the beautiful Qur'an say and what does “afala taqqilun” mean, that is, “do you not ponder?”. And Mawlana of Balkh said beautifully about blind imitation:
Their imitation destroyed people.
Let there be two hundred curses on this imitation (literal translation).
