(August 22, 2021 at 9:00 am)Spongebob Wrote: I will admit that I didn't study Marxism at all during my formative years. As a product of southern Christianity it was basically a taboo topic for me and later on I just didn't see it as relevant anymore. But after the last couple of election cycles, it's become more relevant than ever. I've done a little reading on the subject but I still don't feel well educated about it. I'm curious what others know, want to know, any judgements on Marxism, just open conversation about it.
Let's just start with this, Marxism is definitely not what the Christians and Republicans think it is.
The older I get the more I see labels as fucking bullshit. Be they claims of religion, politics or economic views. They all seem to be human excuses for tribalism. It isn't that one should favor oppression over openness, but in that everyone needs resources and the powers that are, and have been appeal to the masses to support them to get at resources.
As far as Marx, he was not wrong on the value of labor. But outside that, the fact that Stalin bastardized that view and created a dictatorship out of those views means that Marx never took into account that humans can twist anything to gain power.
Trump is no different to any authoritarian asshole I have read about in human history, but only in that his actions so far have not yet toppled our society.
