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It seems like Marx had some good noticings of problems with capitalism, and probably some silly ones, and what he noticed probably wasn’t the first time such th
by pfannkuchen 1y ago
It seems like Marx had some good noticings of problems with capitalism, and probably some silly ones, and what he noticed probably wasn’t the first time such things were noticed, but some were valid. But then people go “ah, these noticings are valid, we should listen to this guy”. But noticing a problem does not mean you can design a solution, and Marx’s solutions generally were not good, despite his problem noticing being good. Also other people basically hijacked his ideas and I imagine probably twisted them somewhat, as they offered a way to seize power and people doing that are typically not ideological purists in practice.
- stevenwoo 1y agoThere’s a surprisingly long (to me) analysis of Marx in Karl Popper’s The Open Society and its Enemies though much of the book might be dated by the conditions of 1950-1960. He writes that Marx correctly saw problems with England’s capitalism in 19th century but never adjusted his views as conditions in England changed during his lifetime(labor reform).