Engels: The Communist as Hedonist
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Re: Engels: The Communist as Hedonist
#2What a weird piece. The heart of the argument seems to be that if one is to be a Marxist that one must be 1) poor, and 2) chaste and to be otherwise is hypocritical. Just state the point and be done with it.
Re: Engels: The Communist as Hedonist
#3About as biased as a source you can find, considering this is from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute [1], a right-wing pressure group designed to spread propaganda in college campuses.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercollegiate_Studies_Instit...
Re: Engels: The Communist as Hedonist
#4What a weird piece. The heart of the argument seems to be that if one is to be a Marxist that one must be 1) poor, and 2) chaste and to be otherwise is hypocritical. Just state the point and be done with it.
I think part of it is the conservative (website states its ideological position) viewpoint that communism's goal is to put everyone in a state of shared suffering, whereas Engels likely wanted a world where everyone could share in his pleasures.
Re: Engels: The Communist as Hedonist
#5About as biased as a source you can find, considering this is from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute [1], a right-wing pressure group designed to spread propaganda in college campuses. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercollegiate_Studies_Instit...
>>right-wing pressure group
That's an odd way to describe human rights advocacy. Almost as disingenuous as describing a person who freely accepts a wage in exchange for providing a service as a "wage slave", or like Engels, decries private property while amassing a fortune in it.
Re: Engels: The Communist as Hedonist
#6I enjoy being able to criticize my government.
Please move to China if you love communism.
Thank you.
Re: Engels: The Communist as Hedonist
#7What a weird piece. The heart of the argument seems to be that if one is to be a Marxist that one must be 1) poor, and 2) chaste and to be otherwise is hypocritical. Just state the point and be done with it.
I think part of it is the conservative (website states its ideological position) viewpoint that communism's goal is to put everyone in a state of shared suffering, whereas Engels likely wanted a world where everyone could share in his pleasures.
It's not communism's goal, but it is the end result.
Re: Engels: The Communist as Hedonist
#8About as biased as a source you can find, considering this is from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute [1], a right-wing pressure group designed to spread propaganda in college campuses. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercollegiate_Studies_Instit...
>>right-wing pressure group That's an odd way to describe human rights advocacy. Almost as disingenuous as describing a person who freely accepts a wage in exchange for providing a service as a "wage slave", or like Engels, decries private property while amassing a fortune in it.
That’s an odd way to describe... oh never mind.
Re: Engels: The Communist as Hedonist
#9Communism is an abstraction, which "works" only for abstract Socratic and Platonic ideal societies.
In 2020 it should be understood that abstractions (and models) are fundamentally different from what we call real world.
Re: Engels: The Communist as Hedonist
#10Modern day communist leaders are no less depraved. For example, Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of the hip democratic socialist magazine, Jacobin, has recently tried to justify both the Berlin Wall and the killing of the defenseless Romanov children:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/child-killing...