Capitalism and post-modernity

Reading the socialist transformation piece shed light on how cultural production and its development into the post modern and modern ages through long-tail, algorithmic processes lead to capitalism. Vygotsky comments on how Tolstoy was right about the ideal human condition lying in the primitive.  He says that aeons ago when primitive man lived on Earth, the factors that guided his evolution were not as nuanced as the social parameters that guide our lives today. He says that int he primitive age, the process of cultural development was almost aligned with biological evolution because both of these had equal importance during that era. However, today, when we aren't required to protect ourselves from wild animals, climb or use our bad teeth, the processes of drastic biological evolution take a step back, and give rise to nuanced social developments in the way we perceive our own identities.

While Marx is an absolute boss, all theories are disputable and rely on induction. We don't really know what's ever going to happen, but we can make deliberation of it. It's what humans are meant to do.

Marx says that power systems and hierarchies create capitalist societies. This comes from man developing the desire to compare people, distribute wealth based on arbitrary factors, and assign those with less capital to restraining life trajectories that seldom allow them to learn and develop. We can relate this to the top-down delivery funnels that participatory media adopted in the mid 1900's, causing an atrophication of Habermas' public sphere, with corporate entities becoming benefactors to the fragmentation of privatized lifeworlds. This basically occurs because those with greater power exercise control over those with less social capital, and limit the outcomes they can achieve through the caveats they place on society for their own personal interests. This may be associated with things like inflation, wage cuts, job cuts and so many other things that affect the average middle class man/woman today, who has conceived an identity as a middle class man/woman only owing to the ways in which society perceives economic inequality! I think this just helps us understand the human condition of today a little better. I always think it is better to be a little more dispassionate about inequality to treat people around us better (I really think it boils down to this, and it makes so much sense that Vygotsky would write about the evolution of society in this way).

What Marx says may be a little far-fetched in terms of surely moving from capitalist to socialist society, because it is finally an indication that can be falsified. But the way in which the post-modern era is developing(especially with technology and the ideologies of younger millennials) may allow us to incorporate some deliberative tendencies that exemplify a Soviet Psychology approach into our reality. The best part about Vygotsky's work is that it allows us to become active agents within society in a much more nuanced and friendly manner than Marx's politically rooted ideas.