> the permanent revolution as described by trotsky? no they went with the permanent march through the institutions instead. not quite the same.   this. activists that might have otherwise gone communist are instead worshipping the corporate rainbow or at most being unskilled labour for ngos that run antifa.   > it's inevitable 1. capitalism worked so well at providing increased wealth to the proletariat that this inevitability was nowhere near as imminent as theorized, and 2. marx erred in assuming that the bourgeoisie was the final boss of the wheel of evolving material conditions. the motive force of capitalism isn't done once it's taken over all the material relations of labour. there are immaterial relations to be privatized too. capitalism, with psychology, is coming for your mind. all the myriad forms of advertising and propaganda, but also management. managers are in essence technicians of applied mass psychology. when you look at hyperwealthy entities like blackrock, are they doing what they do in direct service of the bourgeoisie and its wealth? or are they serving a different and newer economic class? so no, not inevitable by anything that marx wrote given the current available technologies. maybe engels has something more applicable.
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