Western academics have kidnapped Marx and made him so goddamn boring. And largely erased Engels.
They're all deformed by their hardcore anti-Stalinism and anti-communism.
Unless you challenge their readings, it's hard to see how such writings ever triggered a revolution.
They're all deformed by their hardcore anti-Stalinism and anti-communism.
Unless you challenge their readings, it's hard to see how such writings ever triggered a revolution.
Engels: "If mankind, by dint of science and its inventive genius, has bent the forces of nature to its will, the latter avenge themselves by subjecting humanity, insofar as it employs them, to a true despotism independent of all social organisation."
Marx: "It is not individuals who are set free by free competition; it is, rather, capital which is set free."
Marx: "Estrangement appears not only in that the means of my life belong to another, and that my desire is the inaccessible possession of another, but also in that all things are other than themselves, and that—and this goes for capitalists too—an inhuman power rules over all."
Marx and Engels were literally rallying workers to identify how *powerful* they already were, in order to wage a decisive real war against domination by and via Capital, freeing not only themselves as workers but all of humanity and nature, from market rationality *itself*.
Of course, just because Westerners don't get this doesn't mean nobody else does.
China is moving forward. They leashed capitalists, and the country sails forward, measurably evolving through stages, improving everyone's lives in the process.
They are not ruled by the market.
China is moving forward. They leashed capitalists, and the country sails forward, measurably evolving through stages, improving everyone's lives in the process.
They are not ruled by the market.
Idealist Westerners live in a grotesque dystopia and can't stop railing about its blatant irrationality, but demand that any revolution immediately renders a perfect autonomist utopia that bears zero resemblance to the world that birthed it.
China? "Commanding heights" works.
China? "Commanding heights" works.
Fidel understood this.
In 1991, he spoke about the blind laws that rule us all.
In 2014 he said the Chinese "constitute today the earth’s most dynamic economic force."
(source: en.granma.cu/reflections-of…)
In 1991, he spoke about the blind laws that rule us all.
In 2014 he said the Chinese "constitute today the earth’s most dynamic economic force."
(source: en.granma.cu/reflections-of…)
What does David Harvey talk about?
>...how much goes to the landlord, how much goes to the financier, how much goes to the merchant, before it is all turned around and sent back into...
😴😴😴
jacobinmag.com/2018/07/karl-m…
>...how much goes to the landlord, how much goes to the financier, how much goes to the merchant, before it is all turned around and sent back into...
😴😴😴
jacobinmag.com/2018/07/karl-m…
>So I can understand why, if people want to read Marx with a certain sense of joy and fun, that they would stick with volume one.
Trying to get some "joy and fun" out of Marx, reading the work he put all his effort into? Losers!
It's all about making it as sterile as possible.
Trying to get some "joy and fun" out of Marx, reading the work he put all his effort into? Losers!
It's all about making it as sterile as possible.
Marx wrote with fiery passion.
In his later works he fleshed it all out with evidence and calculation, because it was necessary to make his case as clearly and unambiguously as he could.
However, at the core of his thought lies something dynamic and exciting, not dogma.
In his later works he fleshed it all out with evidence and calculation, because it was necessary to make his case as clearly and unambiguously as he could.
However, at the core of his thought lies something dynamic and exciting, not dogma.
And of course, this is exactly what you would expect from a good scientist.
An imaginative, crazy, captivating idea... methodically transformed into something testable, verifiable, communicable.
An imaginative, crazy, captivating idea... methodically transformed into something testable, verifiable, communicable.
I think of Assata Shakur's observations about the harm done to us by putting all of our knowledge into these weird, arbitrarily-delineated silos, and how lucky I was to be able to somewhat weave around them.
And it makes me think of Marx's thoughts on natural science as well.
And it makes me think of Marx's thoughts on natural science as well.
Anyway, I tried to end this with some kind of coherent conclusion but I couldn't come up with one.
So, good night!
So, good night!
Perfect example of a stereotypical Marxist Academic squelching the life out of Marxism.
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If your understanding of enemies of socialism doesn't include these people, you have no understanding.
Fidel again, to end it on a good note:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1175854480539226112
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