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In reply to the discussion: How’s that Marx-is-mostly-wrong stuff workin’ out for ya? [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)41. how's that?
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Ha! Ha! As has been said for 100 years, Charlie Whiskers made a lot of mistakes, but he got
byeya
May 2013
#7
Utterly ridiculous that people STILL believe this religious bullshit about a benevolent upper crust.
HughBeaumont
May 2013
#8
Let's see if you can get past kindergarten level name-calling and specifically tell us which
TBF
May 2013
#10
Yes, Marx never could disassociate his thoughts from Hegel. Fortunately, he was able to wall
byeya
May 2013
#16
the attempt of the other to hide its difference from the self, and the self's attempt
HiPointDem
May 2013
#51
I'm not talking about the programming, but the intended function and Babbage's economic theories
Starry Messenger
May 2013
#38
that person doesn't know anything about marx or even history. pretty obvious from his comments.
HiPointDem
May 2013
#43
I don't get the 'marx couldn't have forseen computers' thing anyway. I don't see how computers
HiPointDem
May 2013
#93
that makes sense. the 'we're all entrepreneurs now!' argument that accompanies the destruction
HiPointDem
May 2013
#122
Especially when we consider that for most people the computer is a consumer good, not a capital good
JVS
May 2013
#117
marx was racist? according to world net daily, free republic, and town hall.
HiPointDem
May 2013
#44
And his disparaging comments about the "negroid charactetistics" of some critics?
Recursion
May 2013
#46
1) check out those comments in the marx-engels archive & if you find them read the entire
HiPointDem
May 2013
#48
actually, he wasn't 'just as steeped in' those things at all, because someone who was steeped
HiPointDem
May 2013
#65
nothing to do with whether i 'like' marx. it's what the historical record shows.
HiPointDem
May 2013
#67
it's my opinion based on reading everything he wrote about race and every comment in his
HiPointDem
May 2013
#71
don;'t even know what gish gallop is. why so snarky? is it because you don't like to have
HiPointDem
May 2013
#75
Yeah, because "Marx was a racist" was not in your post, but your mind...
Democracyinkind
May 2013
#100
He was. That's an opinion too, yes? He has lots of flaws, just like anybody. nt
bemildred
May 2013
#102
HiPoint demonstrated poor reading skills and a propensity to think quantity beats quality.
bemildred
May 2013
#106
Indeed it is, it speaks well of him too, but it does not mean he is not a racist. nt
bemildred
May 2013
#112
Which is a vast mountain of opinion and interepretation built on a molehill of fact.
bemildred
May 2013
#99
please link me to the part in his work where he discusses this new system of control.
HiPointDem
May 2013
#32
"Marx's ideas on how to build a government and run and economy." = which 'ideas' are those,
HiPointDem
May 2013
#31
"His positive comments on the role of merchants and industrialists in overthrowing monarchies"
HiPointDem
May 2013
#36
good point. all those formerly revolutionary demands are now commonplace, thought of as
HiPointDem
May 2013
#94
So you're going to argue that capitalism could appease the working class......
socialist_n_TN
May 2013
#54
Any system that is hanging on due to a sense of morality is bound to fail, as the human capacity...
JVS
May 2013
#55
Marx was wrong about the worker's revolution. It's never happened and never will because they're too
craigmatic
May 2013
#57
oh i don't know....i think it was marx and engels' position that the revolution would be global
HiPointDem
May 2013
#61
This is one of those threads where indeed, Marx's vocal words were 100% correct
graham4anything
May 2013
#78
You mock salad while drinking 48 ounce sugar drinks.Salads are wellness.Wellness saves money.
graham4anything
May 2013
#80
I am not an Ayn Rand or Rand Paul or Ron Paul fan. That's what Marx is.It don't work.
graham4anything
May 2013
#89
don't you know it's the other way around. It is the basic tenet of the Paul racist libertarians.
graham4anything
May 2013
#96
yeah antique ideologies like democracy, constitutionalism, liberal economics....
HiPointDem
May 2013
#126
What Marx didn't grasp was the power of television and I-Pads to opiatize the masses.
leveymg
May 2013
#127
Just thought I'd mention that the The Communist Manifesto is available on Librivox
War Horse
May 2013
#130
Well, the western capitalist societies are the best, most decent and most prosperous ever.
Donald Ian Rankin
May 2013
#135