/lit/ - Literature

>>16088481
Smith wrote as an adult to adults.
Marx is basically childish and immature, and so appeals to the immature and childish...

Marx used a dumbed-down, over simplified model of society to create over-simplified "solutions" which, while I am sure that he meant well, just make things worse.

Marx' main prob was that he had never had to work for a living.

It is as simple as that: Marx had no real, visceral feeling for the way working people think and feel. He was an outsider, looking in, with little thought-projections inside his head about what they must be feeling. We all go through this as kids watching adults at work, but we never really UNDERSTAND until we, too, experience what it is to work with others, whether that labour be mental or physical. Marx never learned that, never gained that aspect of mature experience. Thus a certain inherent childishness in Marxism, and its adherents.
Marxism is wrong, but Marxists (cultural or otherwise) depend upon it to judge reality. When the reality they encounter and endure is not like they think it should be, they make to idiotic assumption it is reality that is incorrect.

Thus they have the idea that, if only you could murder a few more million people who don't think or behave the right way, marxism can be made to work...

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>>15332050
He used a dumbed-down, over simplified model of society to create over-simplified "solutions" which, while I am sure that he meant well, just make things worse.
I am not trolling when I say that Marx' main prob was that he had never had to work for a living. He had no real, visceral feeling for the way working people think and feel. He was an outsider, looking in, with little thought-projections inside his head about what they must be feeling. We all go throughthis as kids watching adults at work, but we never really UNDERSTAND until we, too, experience what it is to work with others, whether that labour be mental or physical. Marx never learned that, never gained that aspect of mature experience. Thus a certain inherent childishness in Marxism, and its adherents. It's wrong, it's not like they think it should be, so it is reality that is incorrect, not their thoughts.

>>15194446
Most of it is bullshit.

>>14509975
Economics is bunk.

>>14341856
Human society is not a business or a government. To try to control people as if they were is what leads to things like the 100 million+ deaths due to socialism.

L>>14258380
No, more like the working class won't behave the way Marxism predicts so the workers are wrong...
LOL

Capitalism is just a tool, no better than the men who use it. It is silly to reduce the complexity of our system of productive enterprise to just one component, money. Using such an oversimplified view no wonder those using a Marxist paradigm always fuck up when they try to apply it to the real world of real humans...

Economists...

>>13197794

Socialist Revolution is always something foisted on the working class by a so called vanguard cadre. It is a means for a handfull to rise to power, never an end in itself... Often it involves systematically teaching people to stop being happy, as the above linked article desbribes: >>13195058

>>13194766
AI will make for even worse experiments in trying to get communism to work...

Propaganda.

>>12295341
Evil? Well, it's results have been largely negative... Still, it is I think better described as limited in it's understanding, and whenever so limited as road-map is used to navigate the real world, disaster is sure to come about...