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I'll take all the downvotes in the world on this one. Marxist's don't get a seat at the adults table. Same way neo nazis don't get a seat at the adults table.

by anm89 6y ago

I'll take all the downvotes in the world on this one. Marxist's don't get a seat at the adults table. Same way neo nazis don't get a seat at the adults table. Makes sense anyway. The communists have a higher death toll.

cassepipe 6y ago
That explains the bartending bit above : I thought you were being provocative but you were just being simplistic. Counting the number of dead people does not explain anything. Did people die because of poor politics/administration that ended in a famine? Because they were in the middle of a conflict? Because somebody wanted to exploit their workforce? Were they sent to death directly? I think it actually matters. No nation or ideology has a monopoly on colonialism, slavery, child labor, massacres and other monstrosities. You seem to have very clear cut categories : The communists, The nazis, The adults. Although they must be quite comforting, I don't think they work very well.
claudiawerner 6y ago
A Marxist is not necessarily a Maoist, Stalinist, or even Leninist. Marxism is a philosophical, sociological, historical, and economic framework for analyzing reality. And much as one can make a great or terrible web application with a web framework, one can do the same with philosophical frameworks. Your comment is unnecessarily dismissive and only harbors guilt by association. Can you attribute support for, say, gulags to Prof. Chibber? If not, then your comment is irrelevant. If you can, you have further to prove that this opinion is a defect in this particular theory of law.
thefucnjosh 6y ago
The people who actually don't belong at the table are flat and young earthers, single-issue voters like anti-abortion voters, or people so partisan and without principles they'll say things like "I'd vote for Biden if he boiled babies and ate them." Instead it's funny that all of these people will constantly try to attack Marx. Yet none of them know the first thing about anything. Much less Materialism, fun fact, materialism is the reason you have pottery in Museums rather than religious texts. Here's a 6th grade level video on Marx for the uneducated or ignorant. youtu.be/fSQgCy_iIcc
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by anm89 6y ago

cassepipe 6y ago

That explains the bartending bit above : I thought you were being provocative but you were just being simplistic. Counting the number of dead people does not explain anything. Did people die because of poor politics/administration that ended in a famine? Because they were in the middle of a conflict? Because somebody wanted to exploit their workforce? Were they sent to death directly? I think it actually matters. No nation or ideology has a monopoly on colonialism, slavery, child labor, massacres and other monstrosities. You seem to have very clear cut categories : The communists, The nazis, The adults. Although they must be quite comforting, I don't think they work very well.

claudiawerner 6y ago

A Marxist is not necessarily a Maoist, Stalinist, or even Leninist. Marxism is a philosophical, sociological, historical, and economic framework for analyzing reality. And much as one can make a great or terrible web application with a web framework, one can do the same with philosophical frameworks. Your comment is unnecessarily dismissive and only harbors guilt by association. Can you attribute support for, say, gulags to Prof. Chibber? If not, then your comment is irrelevant. If you can, you have further to prove that this opinion is a defect in this particular theory of law.

thefucnjosh 6y ago

The people who actually don't belong at the table are flat and young earthers, single-issue voters like anti-abortion voters, or people so partisan and without principles they'll say things like "I'd vote for Biden if he boiled babies and ate them." Instead it's funny that all of these people will constantly try to attack Marx. Yet none of them know the first thing about anything. Much less Materialism, fun fact, materialism is the reason you have pottery in Museums rather than religious texts. Here's a 6th grade level video on Marx for the uneducated or ignorant. youtu.be/fSQgCy_iIcc

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