Best short description of Marx's project:
"Throughout history men have struggled, suffered and died to free the oppressed. Their efforts, when they did not remain sterile, have never led to anything except the replacing of one oppressive régime by another. 1/
"Throughout history men have struggled, suffered and died to free the oppressed. Their efforts, when they did not remain sterile, have never led to anything except the replacing of one oppressive régime by another. 1/
2/ "Marx, who had observed this, thought he was able to demonstrate scientifically that things were different in our day, and that the struggle of the oppressed would now lead to a true emancipation, not to a new oppression.
3/ "…In his ponderings over this resounding failure… Marx finally came to understand that you cannot abolish oppression so long as the causes which make it inevitable remain, and that these causes reside in the objective—that is to say material—conditions of the social system.
4/4 (Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty, pp. 2, 55)
As simple as it sounds, it should clear a lot up for some.
As simple as it sounds, it should clear a lot up for some.
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