Is Marx Still Relevant?
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Karl Marx statue from China adds to German angst
"Karl Marx is still highly relevant 200 years after his birth," he wrote. "Today's technological advances make a better society possible. But capitalism prevents this: it destroys people and nature. It's worth reading Marx to see how exactly this happens."
Karl Marx statue from China adds to German angst - BBC News
Rrriggght...somewhere between the chinese smokestacks and the suicide for coffee break nets...so the trogs don't land on the boss's cars..while china destroys the western world's jobs...then buys up the now desperate assets cheap.
"Karl Marx is still highly relevant 200 years after his birth," he wrote. "Today's technological advances make a better society possible. But capitalism prevents this: it destroys people and nature. It's worth reading Marx to see how exactly this happens."
Karl Marx statue from China adds to German angst - BBC News
Rrriggght...somewhere between the chinese smokestacks and the suicide for coffee break nets...so the trogs don't land on the boss's cars..while china destroys the western world's jobs...then buys up the now desperate assets cheap.
I've read through the 1st Volume of Capital (the only one written by Marx, V2 &3 were patched together after his death by Engels from notes he left) and Communist Manifesto; but was been some decades ago.
Although you can certainly see the false premises of Marx's interpretation history and of his material and atheistic dialectics.. his critical analysis of the exploitive character of unfettered capitalism is as relevant today as when it was written.
It is that which has been put on steroids with Global Free Market Capitalism that is tearing the West apart now and leading to vast impoverishment, polarization of wealth, deindustrialization and social fragmentation.
So Marx is still relevant and highly recommended reading. The problem would come if it was read as a Bible rather than a specific and contributing critique. The same might be said of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, the 'scripture' of laissez-faire global capitalism.
Although you can certainly see the false premises of Marx's interpretation history and of his material and atheistic dialectics.. his critical analysis of the exploitive character of unfettered capitalism is as relevant today as when it was written.
It is that which has been put on steroids with Global Free Market Capitalism that is tearing the West apart now and leading to vast impoverishment, polarization of wealth, deindustrialization and social fragmentation.
So Marx is still relevant and highly recommended reading. The problem would come if it was read as a Bible rather than a specific and contributing critique. The same might be said of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, the 'scripture' of laissez-faire global capitalism.
When people talk about Socialism/Marx they refer to the manifesto written ions ago, and suggest that the theories were written in stone and not subject to change as the Capitalist manifesto is/was.
When speaking about Capitalism, they only refer to the latest advancements and theories.
When speaking about Capitalism, they only refer to the latest advancements and theories.
Marx's biggest problem is he failed to account for human greed and assumed it was only those who thrived in the capitalist system which were greedy.
I asked 10 people my age at work if they knew who Karl Marx was and only one of them knew who he was... 1/10...
He was a great thinker.
And like most great thinkers, wrong on most stuff. Check out Sir Isaac Newton. Except for the theories of gravity and motion, he was a straight-out wackaloon.
And like most great thinkers, wrong on most stuff. Check out Sir Isaac Newton. Except for the theories of gravity and motion, he was a straight-out wackaloon.
I just found out the tooth fairy ain't real either. I had a wisdom tooth pulled and left it out for 2 weeks and no coin.
That says more about our education system than your coworkers.
I'm not sure Marx is all that important to history. What's more important, what Marx wrote or what Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin did with it?
What's more important, what Nietsche wrote or what Hitler did with it?
What's more important, what John Stuart Mill wrote or what Thomas Jefferson and George Washington did with it?
Fair point.But how many people Johnny's age in the US(early 20s I think)could answer that question either?
Huh? Washington was dead before Mill was born. Jefferson would have died when Mill was around 20. Would you mind elaborating on that?
Listen, most Americans of any age think the Marx Brothers are Groucho, Harpo, and Karl.
You are correct. I was wrong. I erroneously identified the writer who influenced the so-called "Enlightenment" that led to the American Revolution as J.S. Mill. I'll look it up and correct it. I still have the book "Communism, Fascism, and Democracy," a great compendium of the significant writings and excerpts of the leading thinkers in each area.
I recommend it.
We all err sometimes.
Unlike most, I admit it when it's pointed out to me.
That's a characteristic of men.
So, say some women, is lying through their teeth to get some a$$, or sell a used car.
I have had to lie on occasion to avoid getting too much attention from the ladies around the full moons, but that's just me. I'm getting too old to tackle THAT much attention.
Some say "to air is human", other people just call them farts.
Just look at the indelible pollution in China, or the wasted blocks and blocks of derelict industrial slabbism scarred across old eastern Germany, if you wanna see how communism saves things that FAKE CAPITALISM (fascism actually ) has created.
I have had to lie on occasion to avoid getting too much attention from the ladies around the full moons, but that's just me. I'm getting too old to tackle THAT much attention.
We all err sometimes.
Some say "to air is human", other people just call them farts.
Just look at the indelible pollution in China, or the wasted blocks and blocks of derelict industrial slabbism scarred across old eastern Germany, if you wanna see how communism saves things that FAKE CAPITALISM (fascism actually ) has created.
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Actually it was a good response. Most would have just assumed you were right without knowing.
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