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So do people really think politics will be over once people's economic needs are met?
Marxists believe in dialectics. In essence, contridictions are inherent and change comes about as the contridictions are resolved.
As the contridictions are resolved, as has happened in past systems, we expect a widening of democracy and better conditions.
Will there be a point where all contridictions are resolved? We don't know for certain, but the path toward that point improves peoples lives and liberates people from their current state of exploitation and oppression
One of the biggest historical arguments on the left from all sides is against the idea of Utopianism. There are huge, obvious problems with capitalism that can be fixed, but they’re not the end of it. Where we go from there is almost anyone’s guess.
The immediate problem we have is that the 1% own everything and control everything. And, if they own everything and control everything we don’t really have democracy, do we. That’s what people are saying about contradictions. If we can somehow make it so the people own everything and control everything, we’ll be several steps ahead.
Do you have a lot of experience with life in a world where everyone's "economic needs" are met
No, but it would look fundamentally different than what it does right now. One of the core premises is that culture & politics are inextricably formed out of property relations & the distribution of economic surpluses.
keep in mind its 1800s language and vernacular