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The key take-away when thinking about Marx's role in Marxism, though, is that Marx didn't create much of any kind of a spec, good or bad. The main concrete prop

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > The key take-away when thinking about Marx's role in Marxism, though, is that Marx didn't create much of any kind of a spec, good or bad. I disagree. > The main concrete proposals he had were pretty banal by today's standards, ideas like universal education Some of them are banal by today's standards because they have been pretty much universally adopted among modern mixed economies (many of which were the developed capitalist societies of Marx's today, to which his prescriptions applied.) > and he didn't say much about how to get there besides hand-waving revolution. The concrete proposals like the ones you are talking about in Marx and Engels Communist Manifesto were -- and were expressly stated to be -- the immediate first steps of the "how to get there" (with "there" being the goal state), and each of the concrete proposals was, IIRC, presented in the context of its specific function in moving toward the desired end state.