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Interesting history and background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Aron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Aron It appears that traditional marxism
by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Interesting history and background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Aron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Aron
It appears that traditional marxism has been largely coopted by identity politics, as an intentional strategy by the corporate powers that be. This is why you see companies that are absolutely brutal towards labor virtue signal about trendy left-wing social issues.
Despite being deeply conservative, I see a lot of truth in Marx's analysis of the problems with modern financial capitalism. Paraphrasing Chesterton: right about what is wrong, wrong about what is right.
- zaaakk 7y agoYou’d be interested to hear, then, that most of Marx’s work is about analyzing capitalism and very little of it involves prescriptions for future societies. In fact, Marx wasn’t interested in drafting any exact plan for a post-revolutionary society. He was far more concerned with describing the internal contradictions of capitalism that would lead us to such a point.
- vearwhershuh 7y ago> Marx wasn’t interested in drafting any exact plan for a post-revolutionary society. And look what we got. Maybe that was the mistake.
- bradezone 7y agoFellow conservative here. Teddy Roosevelt had a balanced take on capitalism vs the rights of workers in one of his famous speeches. It "failed" at the time, but a lot of the principles ended up catching on: http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/trnationalismspeech.pdf http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/t... (Love the Chesterton quote BTW)