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Ahhh, I see your point. Fair. I read about the first third and assumed the rest was just as neutral. TBH I should have looked at the author more carefully - I
by adamsea 6y ago
Ahhh, I see your point. Fair. I read about the first third and assumed the rest was just as neutral.
TBH I should have looked at the author more carefully - I thought the page was like the NYU equivalent of Stanford’s online encyclopedia of Philosophy, sort of an anodyne online primer.
Thanks for pointing that out.
However based on my understanding I will say that most is the article seems pretty on point as being a description of the basics of Marx / Marxist thought.
I’ll also throw in that I think this is the thought that should demand our attention:
> The most powerful nation in history cannot erase poverty, provide full employment, guarantee decent housing or an adequate diet or good health care to its people. Meanwhile, the rich get richer.
Don’t have to be Marxist to see that.
- AnimalMuppet 6y ago>>> The most powerful nation in history cannot erase poverty, provide full employment, guarantee decent housing or an adequate diet or good health care to its people. Meanwhile, the rich get richer. > Don’t have to be Marxist to see that. No. And you can see the consequences that are plastered all over the evening news. Whether Marx has the right solution is a different question. But the problem is real. (Myself, I'd be inclined to say that Germany has a better solution than either the US or Marx. But I've never lived and worked in that system, so I don't really know.)
- adamsea 6y agoI agree : ). Don't think I'd call myself a Marxist but I think the school of intellectual thought he spawned (as opposed to the totalitarian governments mis-using his name) makes valuable contributions to understanding our politics and economy. And yeah I like the German social-democrat model too. Also, big-ups to us for having a fairly civil conversation : ).