I think a good exercise for being able to debate well is to be able to argue a position you don’t hold as well as someone who does hold it. Understanding their positions as well a you do your own is essential to then deconstructing it, so in this thread pick an ideology you don’t hold and put forward those arguments or feel free to attack them with your own positions. I’ll start with Orthodox Marxism.
All history is ultimately the history of the economic, of the bourgeois and the proletariat, the lords and the serfs, the plebeian and the senators. It is a pattern repeated throughout of elites leeching from the labor of the working class to support their lifestyles. In this era of capitalism however, the elite itself has shrunken to such a low number controlling so much that the proletariat will eventually be able to subsume them. It is not a question of whether or not we should have communism, but only a question of when shall the working class gain enough class consciousness to overthrow the oppressor class. It is not even an ideal or a philosophy, but merely a scientific analysis of the reality of the human condition, and the inevitability of what will be produced by the inevitable march of history.
feel free to post your own arguments against that of either what you believe or attack it from any ideology you want, make your own starting post from the perspective of any ideology you want. Just please try your best to make it as close to what those who support it actually believe.
All history is ultimately the history of the economic, of the bourgeois and the proletariat, the lords and the serfs, the plebeian and the senators. It is a pattern repeated throughout of elites leeching from the labor of the working class to support their lifestyles. In this era of capitalism however, the elite itself has shrunken to such a low number controlling so much that the proletariat will eventually be able to subsume them. It is not a question of whether or not we should have communism, but only a question of when shall the working class gain enough class consciousness to overthrow the oppressor class. It is not even an ideal or a philosophy, but merely a scientific analysis of the reality of the human condition, and the inevitability of what will be produced by the inevitable march of history.
feel free to post your own arguments against that of either what you believe or attack it from any ideology you want, make your own starting post from the perspective of any ideology you want. Just please try your best to make it as close to what those who support it actually believe.