User:RD/9k/totality of human capacity (Q38,39)

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drawing out a totality of human capacity
(Marx) / the possibility for each human being to develop all powers, capacities, and talents they possess for the benefit of the overall society (Daniel Guérin 1970; anarchism) [1] -> a motif in Marx that for a while I would always keep thinking about periodically. what does it mean? should it be taken literally, that people have various abilities? or should it be taken more figuratively, that people have time to have well-rounded personalities with many interests? at first I took it literally, and I was like, is this a wrong projection of the future, given that people do that today as a product of dissolving the proletariat and "Saiyanizing" society into a fierce competition between individuals that paradoxically stands together? now I wonder if I overthought it and it was meant figuratively to simply say, if Bolshevism is prosperous then this incidentally happens, this is just the goal rather than a step anywhere in the middle.

A workers' state can become able to allow people the ability to choose and change their careers by introducing compulsory polytechnical education (Stalin) [2] -> it's shocking how often when something in Marx doesn't make sense you read the writings of somebody who's been inside a workers' state and find out you just weren't taking it literally enough. this actually makes sense. it creates a shocking contrast between the way First World countries tend to do things today with people having to take a moonshot on really specific education and this totally different situation where the educational environment you will have gone through is different and it's more about creating firm foundations than heavily judging you and weeding out the selection of people to find the best ones