I recently decided I need to stop spending time dunking on terrible online takes, but this one seems like it needs a response. @MWPalen has a great article that will be coming out on this (hopefully) soon, but a brief explanation of how Marx was not against trade...
@MWPalen Marx on the question of Free Trade or Protectionism from the Free Trade Congress, which was held in Brussels in 1847.
@MWPalen Here is Friedrich Engels explaining Marx's support for Free Trade:
@MWPalen And here is Friedrich Engels explaining why protectionism was bad for the United States in 1888:
@MWPalen Here's the source for all of these quotes, because you can literally just google Marx and free trade and find this immediately, yet this is beyond the research skills of certain highly compensated commentators marxists.org/archive/marx/w…
@MWPalen This is all more complicated than just these quotes, but Marx was more complicated than "capitalism = bad"
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