• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
    189·
    18日前

    He analyzed capitalism (and religion), and his model predicted regular worsening crises when the market couldn’t expand further, leading to its eventual abolition.

    He was employed as a journalist and published books on history and economics.

    I swear libs just make stuff up that sounds right and then believe the shit they fantasized

  • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
    68·
    18日前

    Never made any financial contributions, I assume OP means, completely missing the mark about Marx being anticapitalist. Ignoring the obvious: We still talk about Karl Marx, even make unprompted greentexts about him, proving a social contribution

    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
      14·
      18日前

      His books and writings are a contribution anyway. Plus he was already wealthy so idk if mooching off his family is accurate at all.

  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
    42·
    18日前

    Working a job is not neccessarily making a contribution to society, not a good contribution oftentimes to be sure.

    He was also wealthy to begin with, as was Engels. But his books and writings are a contribution in any case even if he didn’t get rich off them as OP suggests here.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    24·
    17日前

    Difference is that redditors spread racist rhetoric on the internet and Marx wrote the book Americans burned on social media when Russia attacked Ukraine, tho he is German.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
      12·
      17日前

      And also Putin is arguably post fascist or ultraconservative, total opposite of communism. His favorite ideologue even called Ukraine and its language a “Leninist fabrication, to divide and conquer the Russian nation”.

    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      16日前

      Marx wrote the book Americans burned on social media when Russia attacked Ukraine

      That’s amazing. I personally heard someone mention that the Ukrainians just hated communism shortly after the invasion. It took me kind of by surprise and it was actually a little while later that I put two and two together and figured out they meant Russia.

  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    21·
    18日前

    Russia did though, before the revolution Russia was still mostly agrarian and way less developed then western europe. Under communism they developed faster then any other country up to that point and nearly caught up to the west.

    People often compare the soviets to western europe and say they’re poor, but Russia was half a century behind the west before the revolution, and the revolution/ civil war caused even more destruction. A better comparison would be a country like Mexico which also was mostly agrarian and just finished a revolution in 1920. Compared to that the Soviet union did pretty well living standards wise.

    Just look at there war performance , WWI Russia lost to Germany whose main focus was on the western front, WWII Russia was able to halt Germanies full force after they had conquered France and drive them back.

  • Juice@midwest.social
    7·
    18日前

    if there is to be talk about philosophy, there should be less trifling with the label “atheism” (which reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogy man), and that instead the content of philosophy should be brought to the people.

    –Karl Marx, Letter to Arnold Ruge, 1842

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    3·
    16日前

    Sometimes the better at thinking you are, the less sense working for others makes. The less sense spending time doing bullshit makes. The less sense spending time away from loved ones makes. I dunno, bro just needed a UBI