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This was a pretty core topic of conversation around Bernie's run for president, and Marxist lefties have been saying this quite consistently. Would be fascinati
by lazyasciiart 4y ago
This was a pretty core topic of conversation around Bernie's run for president, and Marxist lefties have been saying this quite consistently. Would be fascinating to see the Economist actually engage with some of that directly.
- LegitShady 4y agothe problem with the marxists isn't their evaluation of the problem, it's that they can study history and still somehow have picked the 2nd worst solution possible.
- orthecreedence 4y agoWell, 99% of Marxism is "evaluation of the problem." It's highly descriptive, barely prescriptive. The more prescriptive offshoot of Marxism would be Leninism, and I agree that authoritarian command economies are a pretty bad idea.
- LegitShady 4y ago>99% of Marxism is "evaluation of the problem." Splitting the hair between marxism and leninism isn't helpful in 2022, and marxism takes you to bad ends anyways.
- orthecreedence 4y agoDifferentiating between two completely different things isn't splitting hairs. > marxism takes you to bad ends anyways. How so?
- jwond 4y agoBernie also said “when you’re white you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto, you don’t know what it’s like to be poor” https://youtu.be/z6IlGoeDIUQ&t=0m42s https://youtu.be/z6IlGoeDIUQ&t=0m42s
- lazyasciiart 4y agoYes, but that didn't change the focus of his campaign and his supporters from being class rather than race.