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How I Am a Marxist
- philosopher1234 3y agoHN elided the “how” at the start of the title, and I’ve failed to think of a better replacement. Open to suggestions
- jjgreen 3y agoYou can re-add it, HN title modifications are only applied at submission, not on edits.
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- dang 3y agoI've re-howed it. Sorry.
- philosopher1234 3y agoThank you for the how
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoI am physically and mentally capable of reading each of the words in this link, in sequence, and I understand every one of them having either learned them in school or from context at some point in my life. And yet when I attempt to, an overwhelming feeling of stupidity envelopes me. Yay, you're a marxist. Humanity will probably be dealing with your cult for centuries to come, but there is hope that someday medical science will be capable of curing you of that mental illness.
- tasuki 3y agoYour comment is not helpful. Ad hominem is not helpful. If you could refute anything written in the article, that would be helpful.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoAnd yet, as unhelpful as it is, it's not responsible for mass murder in the tens of millions to hundreds of millions as Marxism and its apologists are responsible for. It's a bizarre and catastrophically dangerous cult that humanity would do well to excise from its collective soul sooner rather than later. >If you could refute anything written in the article, Like the absurdly stupid "I think that labor has value all by itself" inanity that even grade schoolers can debunk? I could refute more, if I didn't feel the urgent need to vomit reading this garbage. HN is so good at nuking all things political... but I guess commie stuff gets a pass?
- philosopher1234 3y agoYou should read the article. Theres no point in all this huff about something you havent even read.
- matthewfelgate 3y agoYou should read some history.
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- ruined 3y agoA lot of Americans in particular and many people from the post-Soviet regions are inclined to disregard Marxism for ideological reasons, and often in response to the incredible oppression and mismanagement conducted in its name. But I think people who at least understand Marxism specifically and materialism in general gain some effective tools for reasoning about the world. Think of the way that China has essentially de-industrialized America. To anyone with the thinnest understanding of Marxism, this is obviously the success of a decades-long, deliberate strategy to build power and a material advantage, by exploiting an innate weakness of finance-oriented management. But it's been conceptually and ideologically invisible to people who aren't thinking that way. Many people observing the "economic" effects end up searching for some kind of singular or complex "economic" cause, not understanding the whole process as a higher-order materialist project.
- hobotime 3y agoMarx gave us a great vocabulary to talk about issues. They're good to know. The trouble is that his solutions sound meaningful and profound. Alas he failed to account the fact that humans are not perfectly good. A good quarter of the world is not without millions of people who died when his solutions were forced on them at gunpoint.
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- pvg 3y agoThink of the way that China has essentially de-industrialized America. To anyone with the thinnest understanding of Marxism, this is obviously the success of a decades-long, deliberate strategy to build power and a material advantage This happened through thoroughly un-Marxist means so it's not clear what a Marxist interpretation offers that's better or more interesting than most other interpretations.
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- matthewfelgate 3y agoWhen someone tells me they are a Marxist, my reaction is similar to when someone says they are a Nazi.
- kernelrain 3y agoWhen someone tells me they react the way you do, my reaction is to assume they are an idiot.
- matthewfelgate 3y agoDon't be a cunt.