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Unfortunately, most people that feel the need to comment vehemently in opposition to the very mention of Marx's name haven't read Marx, nor do they understand t
by voidhorse 6y ago
Unfortunately, most people that feel the need to comment vehemently in opposition to the very mention of Marx's name haven't read Marx, nor do they understand that the "communism" of Marx is not the one they've been taught is the ultimate evil (tm) while the capitalist billionaires evade taxes, laugh their way to the bank, and ensure America remains a country in which 1% of the inhabitants live in the 0th world while 99% slip into the 3rd.
Oh well. :(
- jolux 6y agoI mean, I don't call myself a communist anymore, mostly because I think the term has been irrevocably poisoned and now refers to the authoritarian states of the USSR and China, which are surely no leftist's view of the best of socialism. Marx's criticism of capitalism is immensely valuable though, I would argue regardless of your political affiliation.
- hirundo 6y agoThe term has been irrevocably poisoned not because it is associated with authoritarian states but because it reliably leads to them.
- jolux 6y agoSure, good enough for me. I don't want that situation, but it's not inherent in left ideology. I'm more of a strong social democrat with market socialist/anarchist tendencies.
- jahaja 6y agoDon't revise history, those authoritarian states started out authoritarian from the get go. There were no "decline" into authoritarianism because of some inherent force in socialism.