/lit/ - Literature

"A special place in the history of theories of profit should be given to the German socialist school, the so-called "scientific" socialists, Rodbertus, Marx, Engels, Lassalle, and their followers. These writers take the English classical treatment of profit in a narrowly literal (one must say wholly uncritical and superficial) sense as including all income accruing to capital, to which they add land. Combining this with an equally blind reading of the labor theory of value, they derive a simple classification of income in which all that is not wages is a profit which represents exploitation of the working classes. Capital is equivalent to property, which is to be regarded as mere power over the economic activities of others due to the strategic position of ownership over the implements of labor."

Where is your god now, Marxists?

Marx is indisputably a genius and incredible thinker, whose various works are staggering in their scope and detail.

Che was some alpha with a gun and a cigar.

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Most of his ideas in fact 90% of his ideas were about how capitalism functions. Are you trying to tell us that capitalism is unpractical?

>>3405228
My point, senior, is that not only are gender issues irrelevant to class struggle, the myth of the patriarchy is an artificial concept designed to distract you from class struggle. Sure, it may seem like women are victimized, it may seem like blacks are too, it may seem like Jews run the world, and the illuminati is in control, and to some extents these secondary effects of the primary class issue may have manifested, but these concepts are created and maintained to blur your view of reality. The longer you fight ineffectual gender wars, the longer you remain disempowered as the real issue behind these things is further obscured from you.

Just for the sake of bumping a good thread, I have a question too.

Anything that would be smart to read before tackling Marx's Capital? I'm fairly well versed in philosophy, have done Kant and Plato, up to Habermas, Derrida and Løgstrup and such, but I still have a feeling there are some pretty big gaps in my learnings, such as Hegel and Heidegger. Anything in particular you'd recommend. Other than the obvious other, shorter texts by Marx.

Hello, /lit/.

I come before you with a simple request. What are your thoughts on Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto? I'm writing an essay on it and would like all the input possible.

what do you think about marx?