Creeoing Socialism might be the answer

The term “creeping socialism” is a term with very negative connotations. It implies a slow, but certain autonomy of the state that ensures the death of any capitalist elements in a society. This term doesn’t necessarily deserve the bad reputation it has come to hold. The “creeping socialism” in America and other Western countries has led to labor protection laws and less exploitation. There is arguably more infrastructure for economic exploitation in third-world countries than before, but socialism has also curbed this. So much information is available to the everyday citizen through the Internet, that more and more people are seeing the consequences of their lifestyles. Conversely, the exploited are able to see the chance for improvement from their current situation. Yes, only a few (on either side) will act, but those acts will have a major cumulative effect.
This begs the question as to how far do we go with socialism? Is a fully Marxist state just, or even possible? There will always be someone, or some state, that will exploit another, so global Marxism cannot be achieved. This argument does not debunk Marxism as an unjust system though. If the world cannot be fully Marxist, then what level can we achieve?
In class, a multitude of oppositions were brought against Marxism. Most were on the level of implementation. Can the world sustain Marxism economically, or even environmentally? One cannot necessarily think this way when dealing with Marxism because if the shift is gradual, then there is a good chance that solutions to these problems would arise as time goes on. Capitalism as we think of it today was gradually implemented as well.
For the arguments sake, let’s say that Marxism can be implemented, and try to answer the question of whether or not it can sustain itself for a prolonged period of history. People will always try to exploit others for their own gain, and to think of a time when all are enlightened to “do their share for the community” is fallacy. To survive, Marxism must be able to withstand exploitation from an outside, non-Marxist state (let’s call that state Z.) If a Marxist state depends on state Z for a natural resource, how would the Marxist state respond to being exploited? If state Z raises the tariffs on a necessary resource for the Marxist state, what power does it have to defend itself? It has the option to either exploit state Z by attempting the same tariff-raising, or it can go to war. If it attempts to raise it’s tariffs in return, it is exploiting country Z. Then, can a Marxist country go to war?
Marxism must be a revolutionary occurrence worldwide in order to avoid being overtaken by another non-Marxist country. As stated in class, this seems very unlikely in a globalized world, so Marxism must be gradual. If Marxism must be gradual, then perhaps the world is on it’s way there.