Good post, some quick thoughts before I gotta run to the gym:
Marxism has some interesting ideas, one among them the idea that human society and civilization progresses through stages and that these stages are inevitable. However, I think this is fundamentally incorrect and is almost the "intelligent design" model for civilization. If we take a natural selection model for civilization, I think it fits the pattern much better. Civilizations, like species, arise and go extinct. Some characteristics allow them to thrive in certain environments, other characteristics ensure their swift destruction. Like species, there is variation across civilizations, but there are also similarities that successful civilizations share between each other. Not only do successful civilizations share similarities, but similarities occur before the collapse of a formerly successful civilizations. Patterns emerge.
So is this a stage of evolution we must endure? In my opinion: no. There is no progressive step-by-step evolution of civilizations with some sort of end goal in sight. This is simply a certain type of civilization. Whether or not it will be successful is debatable.
One characteristic of long-lasting, "sustainable" civilizations is that they are not feminist. There is no historical evidence of successful feminist civilizations. There is some evidence that civilizations that have embraced parts of the modern feminist doctrine collapsed. I'm not sure if feminism is a cause or an effect of a collapsing civilization, but, if history is any indication, civilizations that embrace it go extinct.
Marxism has some interesting ideas, one among them the idea that human society and civilization progresses through stages and that these stages are inevitable. However, I think this is fundamentally incorrect and is almost the "intelligent design" model for civilization. If we take a natural selection model for civilization, I think it fits the pattern much better. Civilizations, like species, arise and go extinct. Some characteristics allow them to thrive in certain environments, other characteristics ensure their swift destruction. Like species, there is variation across civilizations, but there are also similarities that successful civilizations share between each other. Not only do successful civilizations share similarities, but similarities occur before the collapse of a formerly successful civilizations. Patterns emerge.
So is this a stage of evolution we must endure? In my opinion: no. There is no progressive step-by-step evolution of civilizations with some sort of end goal in sight. This is simply a certain type of civilization. Whether or not it will be successful is debatable.
One characteristic of long-lasting, "sustainable" civilizations is that they are not feminist. There is no historical evidence of successful feminist civilizations. There is some evidence that civilizations that have embraced parts of the modern feminist doctrine collapsed. I'm not sure if feminism is a cause or an effect of a collapsing civilization, but, if history is any indication, civilizations that embrace it go extinct.