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are there any good intellectual biographies for Marx and/or Marxism? "Main Currents of Marxism" by Kolakowski looks decent but also seems to be very critical of marxism from what I've heard. Is there a better, perhaps less critical theoretical history of marxism or should I just bear it and grapple with the criticisms? mostly looking for something that lays out Marx's theoretical influences

>> No.17468702

>>17468676
He's a failed philosopher with a categorically failed and destructive philosophy. There's very good reason for most secondary texts to be critical.

>> No.17468775
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>>17468676
See this and also the two volumes of A History of Marxian Economics by the same authors

>> No.17468781

>>17468702
>Just trust Plato when he says the Sophists were all just big dummies bro

>> No.17468796

>>17468781
>>Just trust Plato when he says the Sophists were all just big dummies bro
What did he mean by this?

>> No.17468808

>>17468781
>defending literal sophism
classic Marxist

>> No.17468809

>>17468796
With this level of reading comprehension no wonder you think Marx was wrong

>> No.17468816

>>17468808
I'm not you troglodyte, my very obvious point is that you shouldn't just read the critics of a movement to understand it. Again, anti-Marxists and illiteracy go hand in hand so I'm not surprised but c'mon now.

>> No.17468844

>>17468816
Don't care much for illiteracy, but Marxism and being a nigger faggot go more hand in hand

>> No.17468850

>>17468775
thanks, will look into this

>> No.17468876

>>17468809
I'm well aware of what you meant - Gorgias and all that. But you're coming across as someone who seethes at the sight of someone critiquing big daddy Marx.

>> No.17468891

>>17468676
Kołakowski is based. Read his later essays on religion as well.

>> No.17468999

Marxism by Sowell

>> No.17469026

>>17468702

Imagine thinking you don't need to know your enemy

>> No.17469033

>>17468876
No but you don't read Kant before you read Hume, this is improper conduct and it will give you odd views on the writers you skipped over. I don't care about criticizing Marx, most Marxists don't, just don't come here and proudly say "Yeah that's right I read esoteric Neoplatonist tomes without having read a word of Plato".

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>>17468676
lmao why are leftypol trannies so obvious?
>marxism is based the other internet trannies told me so I'm just looking to be told how good it is
fucking disgusting.
first of all you shouldn't read any book at all, you should fucking kill yourself.
second of all anyone with as much knowledge as kolakowski had of marxism is going to be critical of it.
there truly are no bigger subhumans than leftist trannies on the internet.

>> No.17469099

>>17469062
the only question remaining is
when does hbomberguy become hbombergal?

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>>17469062


>do we look like trannies to you

>> No.17469211

>>17469062
i'm cis but ok, fucking freak lol

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This is what you're looking for.

>> No.17469282

>>17469099
I hope never. I hope his explorations into manhood (the onions thing, arguing with buff homo nazis, and his bald spot) have made him have a perverse sense of masculinity, but a sense of masculinity nonetheless.

>> No.17469467 [DELETED] 

>>17468676
>are there any good intellectual biographies for Marx
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>>17468676
>are there any good intellectual biographies for Marx
MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH MICHAEL HEINRICH

>> No.17469499

>>17469282
I still think it'd be funny if all of breadtube went the path of ContraPoints and Philosophy Tube.

>> No.17469513

>>17468676
If you are looking for the history of thought leading up to Marx, I really don’t think the first volume of Main Currents has been surpassed. Kolakowski’s main criticism of Marx is that the political logic of his critique of capitalism entails the political practice of Stalinism. If you don’t think that’s true, or think even if it is Marx’s critical project could still be valid then it’s really not got much teeth.

Michael Heinrich’s biography only goes up until 1843, so it really focuses on Marx’s formative influences. If you want a more general biography then I’d go with the one by David McLellan.

McLellan also has a book called Marxism after Marx, and I think that’s one of the better ‘histories of Marxism’ and is far less critical than Main Currents.

The book mentioned by >>17468775 is excellent for what it is, but it exclusively is focused on the academic development of Marxian economics.

>> No.17469515

>>17469499
Which breadtuber will become a trannie, place your best

>> No.17469542

>>17469515
Knowing Better probably won't, because Knowing better, uh... probably knows better... huehuehue

>> No.17469549

Hal Draper, Marx’s Revolutionary Theory

>> No.17469552

>>17469513
>Michael Heinrich’s biography only goes up until 1843
that is the first volume. he is still writing the rest.

>> No.17469623

>>17469513
thank you very much, super helpful info and recs