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Anon judges Karl (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 189 points 3 weeks ago

He analyzed capitalism (and religion), and his model predicted regular worsening crises when the market couldn't expand further, leading to its eventual abolition.

He was employed as a journalist and published books on history and economics.

I swear libs just make stuff up that sounds right and then believe the shit they fantasized

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 79 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

> 4chan user
> lib

Pick one.

I do agree that anon's take is bullshit.

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

Lemmites just be spouting buzzwords at this point.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 27 points 3 weeks ago

Liberalism is the philosophy of capitalism, the guy in OP is definitionly a lib.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

Indeed, its why Australia's main conservative party (middle right) are called The Liberals

[-] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Why when both are accurate

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

The funny thing is that communism is technically an evolution of actual liberalism, and tankies look a lot less down on conservatives because of conservatism's "muh tradishun" lifestyle marketing.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I agree, but these are not liberals. Don't let the far-right to have the word "liberalism"! They're conservatives or right-libertarians at best, and outright fascists at worst.

[-] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 68 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Never made any financial contributions, I assume OP means, completely missing the mark about Marx being anticapitalist. Ignoring the obvious: We still talk about Karl Marx, even make unprompted greentexts about him, proving a social contribution

[-] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago

His books and writings are a contribution anyway. Plus he was already wealthy so idk if mooching off his family is accurate at all.

[-] froufox 45 points 3 weeks ago

He didn't oppose religion that much, definitely not in "a reddit atheist" way, opium has been commonly used in medicine as a painkiller those days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 42 points 3 weeks ago

Tldr, he is saying religion is a human response to inhuman conditions.

[-] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 weeks ago

Working a job is not neccessarily making a contribution to society, not a good contribution oftentimes to be sure.

He was also wealthy to begin with, as was Engels. But his books and writings are a contribution in any case even if he didn't get rich off them as OP suggests here.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

Difference is that redditors spread racist rhetoric on the internet and Marx wrote the book Americans burned on social media when Russia attacked Ukraine, tho he is German.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

And also Putin is arguably post fascist or ultraconservative, total opposite of communism. His favorite ideologue even called Ukraine and its language a "Leninist fabrication, to divide and conquer the Russian nation".

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Marx wrote the book Americans burned on social media when Russia attacked Ukraine

That's amazing. I personally heard someone mention that the Ukrainians just hated communism shortly after the invasion. It took me kind of by surprise and it was actually a little while later that I put two and two together and figured out they meant Russia.

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 weeks ago

Russia did though, before the revolution Russia was still mostly agrarian and way less developed then western europe. Under communism they developed faster then any other country up to that point and nearly caught up to the west.

People often compare the soviets to western europe and say they're poor, but Russia was half a century behind the west before the revolution, and the revolution/ civil war caused even more destruction. A better comparison would be a country like Mexico which also was mostly agrarian and just finished a revolution in 1920. Compared to that the Soviet union did pretty well living standards wise.

Just look at there war performance , WWI Russia lost to Germany whose main focus was on the western front, WWII Russia was able to halt Germanies full force after they had conquered France and drive them back.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Bold words from a 4chan chud

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Anon is right on the Marx.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

if there is to be talk about philosophy, there should be less trifling with the label “atheism” (which reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogy man), and that instead the content of philosophy should be brought to the people.

--Karl Marx, Letter to Arnold Ruge, 1842

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Sometimes the better at thinking you are, the less sense working for others makes. The less sense spending time doing bullshit makes. The less sense spending time away from loved ones makes. I dunno, bro just needed a UBI

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