"The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence..."

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[–]hfxB0oyA 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

That's more like a single paragraph, though maybe he just meant "Hate the man who is better off than you are." When I saw the headline, I thought the sentence was going to be "Give me what's yours."

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

maybe he just meant "Hate the man who is better off than you are."

It is painful to hear people whose (mis)understanding of Marxism is no better than the cartoon "its all just jealousy against the successful" 😞

Capitalism is not the same as the free market. Free markets have existed since Ogg the caveman offered a mammoth steak to Thag in exchange for a pair of rabbit-skin moccasins. Capitalism is only roughly 300 years old. Marx had many very insightful criticisms of capitalism, although it has to be said that his ideas of socialism and communism are in their own way equally naive and ignorant of human psychology as is laissez-faire libertarianism.

[–]hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Criticizing Marxism doesn't imply condoning capitalism, or any other philosophy.

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

Indeed. I agree totally.