Re:The Plot to Assassinate Orwell
by weirdstuff on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:54PM
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It’s amazing how controversial Marx is 150 years later, and I’ve only ever met one actual “authority” on the matter outside Marx’s actual writings. (And I’m in economics!)
Makes me think there’s something very lasting about his ideas, moral interpretations aside.
Re:The Plot to Assassinate Orwell
by cheaprentalyeti on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:57PM
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It's a very compelling religion of the modern age. That doesn't mean it can't be wrong.
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Re:The Plot to Assassinate Orwell
by wait-a-minute on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @07:00PM
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It's almost as if it hasn't even been 50 years since people were last dying because of the evil extremist ideologies from the 1900s! Tens of millions dead in the last hundred years.
I think that Marx's observations about the exploitative power structures and inherent problems with naked capitalism weren't wrong and they haven't been solved either.
It's fairly easy to sense problems. Harder to identify and analyze the nature of a problem. Yet harder to come up with practical solutions that aren't worse.
Not only that, but he construed a framework in which anything opposing the proletariat, including "class antagonisms" that could be literally anything, should be opposed with force or the threat of force. Things like religion, private property, or anything that is not for the revolution is necessarily considered against the revolution.
When the foundation of a worldview is steeped in violence and using violence to get your political way, it's no surprise that the implementation of that worldview results in bloodshed and power vacuums.