Capitalism and Democracy Splitting UP

Love the ziz, watching later.

Two quotes must suffice: Strauss writes to Kojéve about the predicted "end state" that "in the strict sense of the term, there is no more work at all, since nature will have been definitively conquered" (p. 238). And Kojéve later writes to Strauss:

>"The universal and homogeneous state is `good' only because it is the last (because neither war nor revolution are conceivable in it: - mere `dissatisfaction' is not enough, it also takes weapons!)

>In the final state there naturally are no more `human beings' in our sense of an historical human being. The `healthy' automata are 'satisfied' (sports. art, eroticism, etc.), and the `sick' ones get locked up. As for those who are not satisfied with their `purposeless activity' (art, etc.), they are the philosophers (who can attain wisdom if they `contemplate' enough). By doing so they become `gods' (p. 255, emphasis in original).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Koj%C3%A8ve
https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/riccardo-paparusso/kojeve%E2%80%99s-idea-of-end-of-history-philosophical-key-to-european-
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/txt/kojeve-s.htm
http://www.iep.utm.edu/kojeve/

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1. The world is seeing more and more brutally efficient capitalist states, ironically, these nations were formerly Communist.
2. Natural disasters cannot be solved/avoided through letting the markets decide. We falsely believe we are making a change by recycling and buying Starbucks coffee that donates money to Guatemalan rainforests.
3. Intellectual Property resists capitalistic standard models of distribution. Especially, with the internet privatization of intellectual goods becomes harder and harder to obtain.
4. Biogenetics is manipulating our shared commons (DNA). Companies are moving towards privatizing genetics.
5. New forms of apartheid. Countries are becoming more and more nationalistic which stands counterproductive to the goals of global capitalist markets.