MMP Blog #41 Responses
Comments and responses on the Modern Money Primer Part 41.
The answer to both questions posed in the title is, I think, a big fat no.
Planned obsolescence is a strategy that is unique to the capitalist system. Under this strategy, products are designed to be phased out. This results in a waste of resources and labor power.
These attacks do not exist in a vacuum. They are calculated attempts to discredit Marxism as a theory of revolutionary change. The ruling class is terrified of a united working class that organizes across racial and gender identities.