/lit/ - Literature

>>20630993
Marxism is probably the most complicated political, economic and social theory in the history of the world. Pick up some of these books and read it yourself.

At least 1/3 of Marxism is about various rules summarized from philosophy and natural science. The basic framework is called "dialectical and historical materialism" which were based on criticisms and combinations of the 19th Western philosophy and scientific developments. Dialectical materialism's core values are the conservation of mass, the unity of opposites, the interchange of quantity and quality, the negation of negation in addition to some well-known materialist principles.

Marxism would try to tell you about logical fallacies of mechanical materialism (including Eurocentrism and social Darwinism being falsely applied in social science that led to justify fascism), subjective and objective idealism (religion, metaphysics, the end of history, linear history, circular repetition, individualism, heroic historicism) dominating Western philosophy before Marxism's rise. It would try to answer the nature of the material world and human consciousness, explain how the world has been functioned and what human beings are doing here.

The second part is about how that can all define and explain pretty much everything that primarily matters in the social sciences (contradictions, class, productivity, means of production, economic substructure, political superstructure, the role of religion). Only the last part is about why socialism and communism will be respectively waiting in the next two stations after the bus departs from the current station of capitalism. But for the vast majority, they can't really understand Marxism because it's too complicated. So what they get is usually a few sentences and iconic symbols.

>>18099041
Karl Marx was a Jewish prophet who was at odds with the rabbinical establishment and the Roman authorities and transferred the messianic mission of the Chosen people to the proletariat as a class? Interesting theory.

>>18099055
lmao that would be taking a big risk but I think his idealism is counterbalanced by a sense of caution. It might've been Hu Jintao who was the reckless one. Well, we'll find out and it'll be up to history to judge.

>>18050253
Most proletarians in the world are not white, or western. Whatever you think about socialism, I would at least start with that fact.

>>18048621
So where are the peasants? I think if you were a communist (say, even if you're not, put yourself in the shoes of one), you should try to have an international perspective.

https://youtu.be/kYR2TPFxrJE