(August 24, 2021 at 12:16 pm)Spongebob Wrote: The key to understanding Marx, aside from having an IQ above 50, is that he saw how workers were being exploited by the newly developing industrialization of society and realized that wasn't much better than how peasants were treated by the aristocracy. In some cases the treatment was much worse. It wasn't true in every factory, but was widespread and was dependent upon how much each factory owner cared for the workers. There were some who did a pretty good job of taking care of people but of course this was the get-rich opportunity of the era so many of them capitalized as much as possible. All some people think of when you say Marx is Stalinist Russia or Castro's Cuba, both terrible examples and the point I was making with this thread despite the attempt of some people to drag it down to the same base argument. Sheese.
The point he was making has nothing to do with whether Marxism as an economic system can work, and can it work in a free society. My opinion is no.
I used to read the local Marxist/Lenonist propaganda newspapers strewn around campus. They were hilarious.
