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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 10:32 PM Original message |
Was the development of Marxist theory financed by the exploitation of the working classes? |
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FarLeftFist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. Marxism, as defined by Karl Marx |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 10:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Incorrect, Lenin implemented the dictatorship of the proletariat as Marx envisioned. |
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DefenseLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 10:46 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Cliffs Notes are awesome! n/t |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 10:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Nah, I like to consider myself well read in the left-wing uprisings against the Russion Revolution. |
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DefenseLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 10:58 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. If you think Lenin's Vanguard Party came from Marx |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 11:26 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. The vanguard was a direct interpretion of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Trotsky defended it. |
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DefenseLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 11:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. I don't know what "direct interpretation" even means. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 11:50 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Uh, the communist manifesto writes about the vanguard as the means to implement dictatorship of... |
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DefenseLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 12:08 PM Response to Reply #16 |
31. That's the difference between actually reading something and reading "about" something |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 01:25 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. He doesn't know what "direct interpretation" means either. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 11:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Here's Trotsky on the Dictatorship: |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 01:33 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. OOOhhh. You can quote. You have no idea what you're talking about. No context. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 01:46 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Don't forget Eugene Debs. He was put in prison here for opposing |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 02:14 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. Uh, neither Bernstein or Kautsky were libertarian socialiats. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 01:24 AM Response to Reply #6 |
19. You like to think of yourself that way. But you really don't know what you're talking about. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 02:19 AM Response to Reply #19 |
27. What? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 11:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Marx actually thought communism in Russia very unlikely: Russia, even at the time |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 11:45 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. France and Germany were composed of artisans and peasants. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 12:38 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Marx is a complicated person, part philosopher, part economist, part political activist, |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 01:59 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. When I read the supposedly mroe scientific Das Kapital many |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 03:23 AM Response to Reply #17 |
29. I think there's a conflation here between Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto and... |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 10:52 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. I apologize for my word choice. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yes, as developed. |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
7. Deeply stupid |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 10:57 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Who or what is or was "deeply stupid"? |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-10-11 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
11. Marxist theory was, and is, a study of capitalism, what it does, and where it will lead |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 01:34 AM Response to Reply #11 |
22. +1 |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
18. Oh for the love of god. Who fucking cares? Marxism is a structural analysis of an economic system |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 02:09 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. I've been carrying on this argument in one form or another since |
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howard112211 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 03:11 AM Response to Original message |
28. LoL. This has to be one of the weirdest theories ever. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-11-11 03:30 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Not really, Kropotkin had similar things said about him. |
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