Thoughts on Marxism?

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Thoughts on Marxism?

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12-31-2020, 02:36 AM

(12-31-2020, 02:30 AM)d33p Wrote:
(12-31-2020, 02:14 AM)nixtrove Wrote:
(12-31-2020, 02:10 AM)d33p Wrote:
(12-31-2020, 02:06 AM)Balbis Wrote:
(12-30-2020, 08:06 AM)d33p Wrote: Well, Marx's Capital is pretty significant.

So are washing machines

I love them. If not Marx, who is someone that you find to be influential to how you see the world?

marx was a bit of a racist and an antisemite

True, but so was Darwin and other prominent thinkers. But Darwin's theory of evolution isn't less valid because of his acceptance of racist ideas. Likewise, Marx's ideas about capitalism and class relations are still useful for understanding a lot about philosophy, politics, and economics. I'd argue that a Marxist analysis is useful for combatting racism and antisemitism.

I just thought people bought the hype too much with survival of the fittest and survival with Darwinism. Like honestly Marx just wrote a lot of stuff, he did not initiate any sort of political revolution and he also had ghost writers. Dude was lazy lol. Now this could easily fall into a capitalism vs communism thing but honestly im not the type of person to choose a lesser evil i dunno