Editing Philosophical Research:Molecular Democracy/5.2/1001 PiesNeverWork (section)

== The philosophy of pies ==

<div style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The above story about pies is a metaphor for the history of scientific socialism and the Communist Internationals.

In every First World country, the standard story about Marxism is that Marxism "doesn't work", with the implied subtext that Liberalism is the default way of understanding human populations that is immediately intuitive to all "normal people" and Marxism is nothing but some crazy experiment put together in some particular nerdy theorist's garage, doomed to never see popular relevance in the greater world population. Another way we can state this same narrative is that Marxism _will never_ work. The deceptively-simple phrase "does not" actually conceals a much greater statement about a vast array of geographical locations, every one of these locations' possible choices, and every conceivable possible future that may happen as a consequence of these actions, not to mention how these choices and consequences are mediated by the interactions between a particular location and other locations. ...

If we had the same attitude toward technology and inventions that we had toward workers' states, who can say how many things humanity would not have successfully invented that it in fact has? would we have given up on inventing airplanes? Would we have never invented color video recordings? Would we have set aside the effort to explain all subatomic and macroscopic phenomena in terms of quantum field theory, or the ongoing effort to unify the three known fundamental interactions and gravity? Would we still live in a world without light bulbs, a technology only one century ago termed a "conspicuous failure"?

In our daily lives we rarely hear about how pies never work, even though it is fully possible to fail to bake a pie. We seldom hear about books never work, even as hundreds of thousands of people have failed to write a book. We hardly ever hear about how pianos never work, even as millions of people have failed to learn to play the piano. Yet we tend to hear a lot about how Marxism "never works". What is the difference?

arguably, the difference is that most people have never properly conceptualized Marxism as a physical innovation consisting of material parts. ...

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