Marx didn't see that coming : how capitalism becomes communism

5 years ago

This is a sketch comedy aired on French television quite a few years ago (can't recall exactly, but most likely more than ten years).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Guignols

This humoristic take on globalization illustrates the horseshoe theory in a interesting way. As corporations aggregate, they turn into monopoles and gain hegemonic power, and ultimately become the sole owners of the means of production, basically achieving through economic success what communist leaders want to achieve through political struggle.

This video is merely a subtitled version of what was found on dailymotion : https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4du7uh

I do not own nor claim any copyright for this. Copyrights presumably belong to Group Canal+. I would give them any earnings from this video, or remove this video upon request.

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