WolfpackN64 said:
The creation of the welfare state was necessary for capitalism to survive. The conditions under capitalism caused people to swarev to socialism, resistance and supression of those ideas created the nationalist alternative, fascism. To stop the far right from growing again, the welfare state was necessary. Capitalism couldn't really work after WWII anymore without a bit of socialism mixed in. Politicians seem to forget the importance of the welfare state these days, que the rise of the new far right. |
I don't disagree, I'm just stating that Marx himself probably didn't expect capitalism to survive this long, although I thought that the welfare state was more to appease the left than the far right.