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>>50048439
It never got Marx to work a day in his life.

>>49627018
>Marx's thought is descended from a long line of traditions, going back to Hegel, Plato, and Jesus. Like Hegel, Marx was a "prophet" communicating to the people the revelation that an inner voice had imparted to him. And it is ironic that Marxism, which seeks to squash out religion and its false gods, replaces them with a new one: Historical determinism, an idea that has no basis in reality, and is only brought to us from "revelation". It is irrational from the start. But like other false gods, it is justified by taking appearances and using them to "fit the mold" - an after the fact explanation. His belief that there is a cosmic force called "Dialectical Materialism" which governs human history independently of human volitions, is mere mythology.

>And so Marx made up fancy words, fancy "dialectics", all to prove that his view of the future "must" come into play. Because it was inhuman, and because it could not come into play on his own, his devout followers shed the blood of millions to make his dream come true. The "proletariat" class Marx imagined was nothing more than a gang of blood-thirsty killers.

>One interesting thing to point out is that the Dialectic is really just a manner for studying history and society, and it's actually a half-decent one (although it's terrible if used in isolation, which far too many historians do). The problem is that Marx created this system with a explicit purpose in mind. Marx wrote the communist manifesto before he wrote Kapital, and so he devised this rather brilliant system to try to bring greater scientific rigor to history and the study of society, but he did so in the most un-scientific manner possible, with a foregone conclusion before he even approached the problem. You can apply the dialectic and come to completely different conclusions, which sort of indicates how difficult it is to really make these studies purely scientific.

Reminder commies seized all precious metals from the population.

>>25252341

Marx is genuinely one of the biggest walking memes of all time. How anyone listened to an economic theory from this man is beyond me.