Why all the Marxist hate? I thought this forum wouldn't be blinded by ideology.
1. You cannot lump totalitarianism/communism with Marxism or Karl Marx.
2. Totalitarianism/communism is not any more "evil" than Capitalism/Democracy. They are simply forms of human government and some are just more appealing than others. In fact the U.S. government forced religious ideology in order to get people to blindly fight against communism without them even knowing anything about it. That is when "one nation under God" was added to the pledge of allegiance.
3. Marx wrote Das Kapital and got most of his ideas because he saw the brutal working conditions that children had to go through in the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Children literally were eaten up by machines in the name of productivity.
4. Marx, Althusser, and others were simply saying that societies are made up of ideologies in order for their systems to work. Thus they opened up the conversations of things like religion, schools, media etc as being "social ideology apparatus" so that people wouldn't just accept those things as a fact of life.
1. You cannot lump totalitarianism/communism with Marxism or Karl Marx.
2. Totalitarianism/communism is not any more "evil" than Capitalism/Democracy. They are simply forms of human government and some are just more appealing than others. In fact the U.S. government forced religious ideology in order to get people to blindly fight against communism without them even knowing anything about it. That is when "one nation under God" was added to the pledge of allegiance.
3. Marx wrote Das Kapital and got most of his ideas because he saw the brutal working conditions that children had to go through in the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Children literally were eaten up by machines in the name of productivity.
4. Marx, Althusser, and others were simply saying that societies are made up of ideologies in order for their systems to work. Thus they opened up the conversations of things like religion, schools, media etc as being "social ideology apparatus" so that people wouldn't just accept those things as a fact of life.
