Karl Marx was a NEET who never did a day of actual work in his life, and spent all of his time mooching off of his more successful friends or publishing opinion pieces in magazines. He was basically the Anita Sarkeesian of his day, and his grasp of economic principles was woefully, WOEFULLY inadequate.
He unironically defended the Labor Theory of Value, which is sort of like the Young Earth Creationism of economics, and the model of society that he outlined in the Communist Manifesto, to be frank, did not work. Following the Ten Planks of Communism does not result in a socialist utopia, it results in a failed state.
So by depicting communist societies as being desolate shitholes because the ideas of Marx weren't ever properly implemented is actually an flattery, because it implies that the problems with Marxism are rooted in corruption rather than Marx's own ineptitude as a political and economic theorist.
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Karl Marx was a NEET who never did a day of actual work in his life...
What are you talking about? He was in the perfect position to write about capitalists. He was very familiar with how capitalists "earned" their money, but was not a capitalist himself and therefore would not be a class traitor. One could say, having seen first hand how capitalists got their money, and how horrible it would be to have to work for a capitalist, he was so fucking salty about capitalists, he wrote a book about how salty he was about capitalists.
Why is Marx still taken seriously? This isn't the 19th century, the age of the operator-owner is long dead - for almost all corporations the people who actually exercise control are the managers, not the shareholders
Marx is irrelevant to economics, but is a powerhouse in sociology, and history
Like most commies desu
marx saved the world from unregulated capitalism and also gave birth to the idea of using government to help people which is great
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>sociology
Cuckoldry: the discipline
>history
His historiographic model is shit compared to Spengler.
I don't disagree
So you be sayin' the people who "own" the company and take most of its profits are even MORE useless than they were in the 19th century?
Shiet...
Mrax literally found a newspaper and worked as a correspondent for an american paper for years. You can definitely disagree with him but he worked his ass off
>never did a day of actual work in his life
Neither did most of America's founding fathers
>get PhD in economics
>work as a journalist
>eventually your economic ideas (which were considered Orthodox at the time) get you in trouble and you end up stateless and without the ability to work
>Neets in the future who dropped out of community college think your ideas are bad because you're a neet
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>copypasta
No. But why do anti-intellectuals lionize "actual work"? It's the height of hilarity that a man can spend his life considering prole matters but proles will hate him because he isn't one of them. But they'll kiss up to their bosses regardless.
And that's why socialism is a bust.
>He was basically the Anita Sarkeesian of his day
Is this a GeeGee circlejerk?
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Doesn't that reinforce the point that the capitalist is a parasite?
I seriously don't get this demonisation of Marx I see everywhere.
He was just some dude who wrote about some ideas, the way people talk about him as if he's Satan himself.
>Karl Marx was a NEET who never did a day of actual work in his life
Even if that wasn't bullshit, so what?
People need to divorce themselves from the notion that personal experience is somehow the golden ticket to truth, and that it's impossible to reach the truth without experiencing everything first-hand. I mean even you faggots don't believe it, you haven't personally witnessed every failed communist state, you weren't around when Marx was alive, you haven't personally witnessed the implementation of the labor theory of value, you're just some random guy on the internet, probably still going to college and trying to figure out what the fuck to do with your life. So by your own logic, your opinion is irrelevant.
I don't even like communism.
>Karl Marx was a NEET who never did a day of actual work in his life
OUR GUY
Whats the faggot even trying to dispute? Lolberatarians? All of those people in that thread are Jews, every single one. Capitalism doesn't have a unifying figure like Marx.
Excuse me.
But their motivations are to serve the shareholders. The shareholders give management a simple directive, maximize profits to drive the M-C-M investor cycle.
>LTV
heh
I have never read Marx and I have some questions.
I often hear people say that Marx believed communism was the inevitable fate of civilization, and because of this he never actually advocated socialist activism. Is this true?
He though peasant revolutions were inevitable too. I don't think you understand what inevitable means. He thought it would happen sooner or later. Activism sought to make it sooner rather than later. Which is one of the flaws of Bolshevism, they were trying to create communism sooner than later too, and set themselves up to fail.
Americucks and /pol/.