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>Just let me and my friends run things and everything will be fair, just trust me

Okay so Marx's whole idea of Primitive Accumulation is supposed to show that Smith's idea of class development and the level of industry of primitive people is the cause of class distinction is mythical. Marx instead thought that class distinction is due to groups of people throughout history dominating some area of land and forcing the dispossessed people to work for them and keep them subjugated &c. which therefore is also the cause of the omnipresent market whereby the wage slaves relate to the objects of the world. I don't understand how 1. The dominating group isn't the form of industry Marx is talking about and 2. how Marx's claim isn't just as equally mythical and unfalsifiable. How do these types of groups of dominating people cooperate enough to the degree to be able to do this? Does it happen naturally?

He killed millions...

I've been reading Thomas Carlyle for many years, have recently got into John Ruskin too and they all talk about the issue of disenchantment of life stemming from the alienation of the worker from his craft. Becoming just a cog in a system etc. Something I personally sympathise with being a wagie. It occurred to me that Marx talked about similar things but I've stayed well clear of him for years. So I don't really know where to start. I'm not looking to understand Marx exactly I just want to learn about his understanding of the value of labour and importantly alienation of work. Can anyone recommend me any specific chapters of Das kapital that deal with this / related essays?

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Brainlet here and I'm having a hard time getting through pic related, what does Marx mean by "modes of production" and "law of value".

What's your favorite work of Marx that isn't Capital?

Sorry about the whole Communism thing.

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When you realize that most of the conflicts about Modernity are just reified conflicts resullting from the contradictions of capital

This dude was born in 1818. Why was he able predict the conditions of the modern world so faithfully?

Hasn’t history proven that Marx’s vision of an egalitarian utopia is unattainable, inevitably creating an oligarchy more oppressive to the proletariat than the bourgeoisie it vilifies?

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