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Marx and Engels weren’t writing on American slavery and race relations. But they seem pretty racist to me based on their frequent dropping of n-bombs in their
by prepend 4y ago
Marx and Engels weren’t writing on American slavery and race relations.
But they seem pretty racist to me based on their frequent dropping of n-bombs in their writings [0].
I think the reason we don’t have 19th century racist essays by Marx and Engels is that they wrote almost always about Europeans and European culture.
Agree on Churchill. But does that surprise anyone? England was still literally colonizing India and South Africa during Churchhill’s time. It would be weird to find a non-racist world leader from that time period. Even LBJ, decades later, held pretty racist beliefs even while passing the civil rights act.
[0] https://medium.com/@robertpannier/karl-marx-friedrich-engels-fathers-of-marxism-on-blacks-mexicans-74c153ef4d35 https://medium.com/@robertpannier/karl-marx-friedrich-engels...
- RedCondor 4y ago[flagged]
- allturtles 4y ago[flagged]
- RedCondor 4y agoThink whatever you want, but know that the idea that "everyone was racist", or that any Westerners were at the humble vanguard of anti-racism, is utter bunk.
- tiberious726 4y agoI really don't know if trying to tease this out is worth it, but is there an eastern power you would hold out as an exemplar of "anti-racism" or whatever?
- prepend 4y ago[flagged]
- RedCondor 4y agoNever agreed to such nonsense. I seize upon what I find interesting and leave the rest to dry.
- prepend 4y agoSo you don’t think Marx and Engels are racist? That’s interesting, would you expand on why? I can’t think of a reason why people would write n-word used in a diminutive and insulting manner and not be racist. And it’s really common too. Not just a single instance but many times and seems like it was in their regular vernacular.