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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Marx didn't invent an economic system named "Marxism." He was a critic of capitalism. Many of his criticisms are valid. His work was a study on exploitation and power dynamics.

Incredible, a Saiditor who read and actually understood Marx, Bravo sir.

His critiques of capitalism were indeed right on the money, although I don't believe centralized communism is anything close to an optimal solution. Perhaps Kropotkin's communism would be better, but I still have some concerns. This does a lot to solve the problem of exploitation, but applying the principle of democracy to economics does not totally solve the problem of alienation. If one is in the minority about how the means of production and your labor ought to be used, you are essentially in the same alienated situation, but now no longer have the option of plying a trade in the free market, or access to your own capital

[–]jagworms 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There's value in studying this stuff. Not necessarily to embrace it, but to know and understand what ideas are out there. The tyranny of the majority can happen in any situation. When Marx says to seize the means of production, he also means to turn back the clock on the industrial revolution. Before the factories, everyone was an independent contractor, each owning their own means of production. One needs to read both "The Communist Manifesto" and "Industrial Society and It's Future"

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You seem to have excellent taste in reading materials, are you familiar with Max Stirner? If not, seems like something you might find interesting (Like Marx, he was actually a young Hegelian). Its right up there on my list next to Marx and Kaczynski

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-stirner-the-unique-and-its-property

[–]jagworms 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hadn't heard of him. thanks.