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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Sometimes I wonder how many “Marxists” really have read Marx.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Only those that did know that you can't vote away capitalism.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No you can’t. It collapses on the weight of its own contradictions. Any imposition of socialism without the right material conditions is doomed.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago
    1. What I remember from Marx and/or Engels is that a sharpening of capitalism’s internal contradictions are necessary but not sufficient. Revolution is still needed. We can’t expect some automatic transition from capitalism to socialism.
    2. Marx wasn’t a prophet. The first successful communist revolution happened in Russia under feudalism, not capitalism.
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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    In reference to how socialism will truly come about, Marx literally criticized the kind of thinking that dominates left wing thinking nowadays.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Communism and Marx are objectively left wing, and “left wing thinking” could mean any number of things. Without being specific about what you mean, it’s unfalsifiable.

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