/lit/ - Literature

why do so so so so so many people have this weird ass knee jerk reaction to marx? especially americans?

absolutely the vast majority of them have hardly read a word of marx and pretend that they are experts on the topic; why do they do this?

it just reeks of cognitive dissonance - there are so many threads posted daily here about the ills of modern life, the despair inducing nature of our existence, the inauthenticity that is forced upon us, the shitty wagie shit that we have to put up with, the sense of alienation we feel in front of all this, the fact that all is under the sway of this inhuman power, the fact that none of us are able to follow up on what we actually want to do with our lives, the fact that books and movies and music and what not are all money grabbing shit shows today. and yet, yet after all this, people have this stupid ass knee-jerk reaction to the sheer mentioning of marx.

all us marxists ask is that you read him, do not read shitty secondary sources! do not read those that follow him! read marx and engels, read with an open mind, and read carefully. this isnt about ideology or communism vs capitalism or any of that shit, this is about diagnosing the ills of today and trying to look for the roots and how we might change that. whether you agree or not with the proposed solution (forget what you think the marxist solution is, everything thats been fed to you about marx is bullshit) does not matter, what matters is that you actually read it, learn about it, and think about it. it just makes me sad, i see all these others who go through the exact same despair as me, and marx has been one of the only ones available to give me the tools and descriptive apparatus to diagnose the root causes with clarity, but people just have the weirdest attitude.