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Hang on, have you read Marx at all? He's not calling for mass genocide or a complete eugenics movement. Marx didn't kill all those people, the dictators (mista
by orthecreedence 8y ago
Hang on, have you read Marx at all? He's not calling for mass genocide or a complete eugenics movement.
Marx didn't kill all those people, the dictators (mistakenly) thinking they were acting on his behalf did. And if you do actually read Marx, you'll understand he's more critiquing capitalism than anything else. Marx didn't invent socialism or communism. Those ideas already existed. Marx simple put a fresh coat of paint on ideas people have been interested in for a long time.
If you have a meaningful issue with the socialized means of production, please, let's hear it. But blaming someone who said "we should try to improve things for the people providing value to society" for mass genocide is a bit silly.
- edoo 8y agoMarxism is the idea you have the right to use violence against innocents to better your world. Capitalism is simple freedom. Attacking your own society is the basis, exactly like all the dictators did. Words like "improving" are weasel words, completely subjective. Their idea of improving a society is exactly what I would do to destroy one.