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This is a topic already covered at some length: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm https://www.marxists.org/archive/m
by npzimmerman 11y ago
This is a topic already covered at some length: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-m...
I'm not joking, the predictions and discussion of technical progress are very much relevant. It should be required reading. The nearest I can tell, anti-intellectualism and the red scare have robbed multiple generations of a valuable source of vocabulary and context for understanding our current stage of human development.
As for how, exactly, we get past alienation - I don't know.
- paperrr1 11y agowww.marx stopped reading there. Atleast I should've 'anti-intellectualism'. Being a non-marxist doesn't mark one an anti-intellectualist. Such pomp for ones own ideas..
- alistproducer2 11y agoThanks for bringing this up. I remember reading the communist manifesto back in the day. Despite how insightful it is, our society makes it seem like a subversive action.
- hellofunk 11y agoThat's often true with paradigms and ideologies. The way a particular group of people or a society at large interpret and use/abuse a philosophy is rarely reflected in the ideology itself. For example, look at all the atrocities, both physical and social, that have occurred throughout history due to the way Christianity was interpreted. The Bible has been used to justify all types of prejudice, even though the New Testament's message is actually quite the contrary.
- paperrr1 11y agodaily reminder that marxism and socialist variants killed over 100 million people last century.