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we're living in barbarism
I agree, and – though I recognize it could always get worse – if the choice is Socialism or Barbarism, and we've already got Barbarism, and the tone of the conversation around anti-capitalism has noticeably changed in the last few years.... Maybe there's hope for us?
This is untrue, we are not living in barbarism. The quote that you are referencing to reach your conclusion that we are living in barbarism was spoken by Rosa Luxemburg. The barbarism that Rosa Luxemburg was referring to in her quote, “As thing stand today capitalist civilization cannot continue; we must either move forward into socialism or fall back into barbarism” is defined by Engels in his work, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State as when, the “natural endowments of the two hemispheres come into play” in this definition, barbarism is dominated by “the domestication and breeding of animals and the cultivation of plants”. Now if we compare this state to our current state it becomes clear that we are, in fact, not living in barbarism, not at all. We are, however, living through capitalism, which is certainly brutal, and barbaric, that much is true, but to say that we are living in barbarism is a gross misinterpretation of the severity of our current situation.