No, Marx said Capitalism was a necessary stage of Socialism. It’s not that it dies, it’s necessary and becomes Socialism.
Marx for instance would have disagreed with Mao/China’s initial attempt to jump straight to Socialism… And that mistaken attempt was born out by history (as being a mistake), as it ultimately failed, and China had to open its self to becoming a Socialist Market Economy (in order to make up for its missing the Capitalist steps of becoming inevitably a Socialist society).
There’s a letter towards the end of his life where he speculates about Russia, specifically, skipping the capitalist stage because of cultural reasons.
Arising from a capitalist and industrial system is less of a requirement and more of what he considers to be the most likely scenario. You could, for example, in theory have a peasant revolution but you’d either need to attract industrial expertise to modernize your factories or reinvent a lot of wheels.
No, Marx said Capitalism was a necessary stage of Socialism. It’s not that it dies, it’s necessary and becomes Socialism.
Marx for instance would have disagreed with Mao/China’s initial attempt to jump straight to Socialism… And that mistaken attempt was born out by history (as being a mistake), as it ultimately failed, and China had to open its self to becoming a Socialist Market Economy (in order to make up for its missing the Capitalist steps of becoming inevitably a Socialist society).
There’s a letter towards the end of his life where he speculates about Russia, specifically, skipping the capitalist stage because of cultural reasons.
Arising from a capitalist and industrial system is less of a requirement and more of what he considers to be the most likely scenario. You could, for example, in theory have a peasant revolution but you’d either need to attract industrial expertise to modernize your factories or reinvent a lot of wheels.
And, of course, Marxism isn’t the only socialism.