That same logic can be applied to the founding fathers and the Constitution. Feel free to show me where they mentioned automatic weaponry, 24 hour news cycles, and the internet. Yet you conservatives love to cling to strict interpretations of the Constitution as if it were the holy word of God himself and are unwillinging to compromise in the face of new technological realities. Thanks for demonstrating typical conservative hypocrisy once again.
We can look at it easily. Assume current trends and trends of the last 30 years. the 1% get exponentially even more richer, median wage will never get better. Another crisis will occur, likely due to another pumping of a market bubble. If its bigger/worse than before, will be another massive wealth transfer upwards from the working class.
This is observable. We can see it in action. It's also predictive. We can predict the effects of mass media on that person that works at Wal-Mart, for example. Just because we're not working with mathematical formulas doesn't mean it's not science.
So any crisis happens, you take it as a sign that you are correct. If no crisis happens, you say "just wait, the next crisis is coming!". How totally convenient that no results could possibly falsify your beliefs. How like a religious zealot.
The corporations will do everything in their power to outlaw 3d printers. And if things continue going the way they have been for the last few decades, you can be sure that why will be successful.
Seeing the pumping of capital into asset and financial bubbles is not a religious point of view. We've witnessed the biggest wealth transfer in the history of the world, and you're labeling me a zealot? Marx wrote much about crises in capitalism. Heck, that video I linked you was all about crises. A crisis WILL happen: they always do. And if you would've watched that vid, you'd know that capitalism never solves them - it shifts them elsewhere.
Of course you are a zealot. You take one person's beliefs as gospel, ignoring pretty much any evidence that contradicts it. You also advocate for violent overthrow, don't you? You said Chomsky was all talk. What else should he be doing?
How do you feel about the Constitution? Do you think it's a well-written document? And this is an open question to all.
Yes, I believe it is pretty well-written. I think we are in large part the most powerful and successful country in the world due to many of the things put in it. I think the best part about it is the Bill of Rights and pretty much all those rights have stood the test of time.
Marxism is obviously so effective that no countries of import are willing to use it.
So allow me to provide a perspective that you likely haven't considered before regarding the Constitution. And this perspective should shed some mental light on Marxian thought and analysis.
No communist state has ever existed. Stalinist and Maoist terror regimes were not communist in any sense of the word: they were state-sponsored capitalist systems using the propaganda of communism to oppress and terrorize their people. It never came close to fulfilling communism as described by Marx. We can certainly go into the history of the Soviets all you'd like, try to pulp away.