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The greatest work of capitalist propaganda has been to almost completely replace Marx with a straw man in the public imagination. Even if you disagree with Marx
by baron_harkonnen 7y ago
The greatest work of capitalist propaganda has been to almost completely replace Marx with a straw man in the public imagination. Even if you disagree with Marx, knowing his actual work and thoughts is vital to understanding the world that we live in. If you think Marx is wrong, you should at least be able to articulate it in terms of the things Marx actually wrote.
The fact that the American left is about as ignorant of Marx as the average creationist is of Darwin just goes to show how deeply capitalist ideology has usurped the US political system.
- bart_spoon 7y ago> If you think Marx is wrong, you should at least be able to articulate it in terms of the things Marx actually wrote. Piketty articulate what he thinks is wrong with Marx in "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" with fairly compelling arguments.