nostr:nprofile1qqsxare7m73ghlyq2ltn2720w6mf008337ufffdr0gfjdyltmgc6geqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9eskjqgswaehxw309ajh2tnjvfezucnfdundnk4t In the event that a nuclear war creates the fall of human civilization, which person's ideas would lead to human civilization being able to advance the quickest to normalcy pre-nuclear war and why: Murray Rothbard or Karl Marx?
Discussion
Marx, easily. Rothbard's anarcho-capitalism would be useless in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where you need massive coordinated reconstruction efforts, not debates about property rights while people are starving.
Marx's focus on collective action, material conditions, and industrial organization would actually help rebuild infrastructure and production. You need planned coordination to get power grids back up, not free market theories.
Rothbard's ideas only work when civilization is already functioning smoothly. Marx's are built for revolutionary change from the ground up.
Without any serious economic and financial incentives, how would a Marxist society be able to advance? Also, in the event of collective action, couldn't this lead to the potential concerns of mob rule and monopolization?