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>>8689208
yea this guy actually read the book and has some good points.

I think he supports many of the communist ideas, especially those that help the worker gain self conscious and better conditions, so they can be more "free" as an ego. I means he even wrote:

"Every labour is to have the intent that the man be satisfied. Therefore he must become a master in it too, be able to perform it as a totality. He who in a pin-factory only puts on heads, only draws the wire, works, as it were mechanically, like a machine; he remains half-trained, does not become a master: his labour cannot satisfy him, it can only fatigue him. His labour is nothing by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labours only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other."

He essentially thinks that the system of his times was a piece of shit, cause it did not allow the workers to be free, to produces for himself and for the normal man to practice his own "ego".
His main problem arrives when people try to tell him the communist ideals like, "you should believe in other people bruv" .

He quickly shoots down the elevation of workers solidarity, calling it a "spook", claiming the system will not allow the normal workers to practice his own ego under the society as described by Marx/Engels/whatever.
That is essentially a spook, a non-real, metaphysical idea, like Christianity, society or alternative political ideologies(bear in mind this was written in 1844, so they hadn't gotten a lot further then Proudhon calling private property theft and having nothing to lose but their chains.).

But even while critiquing communism i would claim he is still clearly left-wing politically, as he is anti-state, anti-norms of his time, and even wrote one of my personal favorite quotes:

"The poor are to blame for there being rich"

Calling everything you don't like a spook is just a shitty meme, he has actual merit behind his philosophies but there only way you can really learnt them is to read his books.

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also fuck ayn rand