Marx thought that communism followed the end of capitalism, the moment capitalism completed its mission of growth and there is enough for everyone, that it should switch to communism.
My pet theory is that markets strive towards market freedom as opposed to a free market which is purely defined by a lack of regulation and then followed by processes that fill the power vacuum. No, market freedom is about giving everyone the ability to participate in the division of labor to the extend that they want, the ability to refuse to be trapped by debt against their will, the freedom from being forced to grow the economy against their will, the freedom from rent seeking and the freedom from being deprived of basic humans needs like land and food via the division of labor.
As you can see, these freedoms aren't granted by default, a free market does not grant them. We introduced states with their monopoly on violence to protect people from violence. The right to life has to be enforced by competent officials as otherwise a small portion of the population will inevitably use murder for their own benefit.
Because of this constant striving toward market freedom, people resist authoritarianism and this necessitates guard labor which forcibly distorts the market away from market freedom. At some point half the population engages in guard labor at which point the ruler will be overthrown by the guard labor leading to a military dictatorship which will be overthrown again. If this doesn't happen, then the ruler will be overthrown by the rebellion instead leading to an economy that is closer to market freedom.
"Smart" rulers notice that they should avoid becoming a villain, instead they blame someone else, a foreign country and their leaders. During market saturation, money fails to circulate, leading to mass unemployment as the productivity of a handful of people is enough to produce most products and the jobs are unfairly allocated to people who do not need their additional income. This encourages governments to invest the surplus labor force in the military and for building and stockpiling weapons to fight the villain country. Because the choice to only work for their rent and food has been taken away from them through the unfair concentration of work, people are forced to engage in wartime production, they simply have no choice.
What warfare represents is just a way to keep capital gains and interest rates high in an economy that has no need for further growth. People quite literally destroy capital because they haven't learned how to allocate it properly. Market saturation is as if capitalism was a video game that can be beat, but when you finish it, you and everyone realizes that beating capitalism doesn't solve poverty whatsoever and people get become aware and angry that the problem wasn't a lack of growth to begin with and eliminating poverty is purely about wealth and income distribution for which capitalists have no answer. Hence the endless need to grow and if you can't, to go to war, to keep people busy and sweep the inequality under the rug.
My pet theory is that markets strive towards market freedom as opposed to a free market which is purely defined by a lack of regulation and then followed by processes that fill the power vacuum. No, market freedom is about giving everyone the ability to participate in the division of labor to the extend that they want, the ability to refuse to be trapped by debt against their will, the freedom from being forced to grow the economy against their will, the freedom from rent seeking and the freedom from being deprived of basic humans needs like land and food via the division of labor.
As you can see, these freedoms aren't granted by default, a free market does not grant them. We introduced states with their monopoly on violence to protect people from violence. The right to life has to be enforced by competent officials as otherwise a small portion of the population will inevitably use murder for their own benefit.
Because of this constant striving toward market freedom, people resist authoritarianism and this necessitates guard labor which forcibly distorts the market away from market freedom. At some point half the population engages in guard labor at which point the ruler will be overthrown by the guard labor leading to a military dictatorship which will be overthrown again. If this doesn't happen, then the ruler will be overthrown by the rebellion instead leading to an economy that is closer to market freedom.
"Smart" rulers notice that they should avoid becoming a villain, instead they blame someone else, a foreign country and their leaders. During market saturation, money fails to circulate, leading to mass unemployment as the productivity of a handful of people is enough to produce most products and the jobs are unfairly allocated to people who do not need their additional income. This encourages governments to invest the surplus labor force in the military and for building and stockpiling weapons to fight the villain country. Because the choice to only work for their rent and food has been taken away from them through the unfair concentration of work, people are forced to engage in wartime production, they simply have no choice.
What warfare represents is just a way to keep capital gains and interest rates high in an economy that has no need for further growth. People quite literally destroy capital because they haven't learned how to allocate it properly. Market saturation is as if capitalism was a video game that can be beat, but when you finish it, you and everyone realizes that beating capitalism doesn't solve poverty whatsoever and people get become aware and angry that the problem wasn't a lack of growth to begin with and eliminating poverty is purely about wealth and income distribution for which capitalists have no answer. Hence the endless need to grow and if you can't, to go to war, to keep people busy and sweep the inequality under the rug.