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The Opium of the Intellectuals

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Re: The Opium of the Intellectuals

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s sad how it’s acceptable amongst Marxist fans that a no true Scotsman is a valid response. If all it takes is “a cursory reading”, then you should certainly be able to provide a short summary and enlighten the capitalist slaves.

"no true scottsman" is irrelevant at the level of the philosophy of Marx/Engels. Communism is a stateless, classless society where mass productive capacity allows for the maxim "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need" can prevail. Such a society has never existed, and the so-called communist governments of the USSR and CCP bear no resemblance to it. If you want to criticize Marx, you ha…

>It is consolidated in the firm through monopoly

Monopolies are not a stable state without an interventionist government to keep out new market entrants.

> is consolidated in finance which to a large extent plans the international economy

This is a senseless statement because “finance” itself is a market of people willing to invest in various instruments. The exchange rate between two floating currencies (i.e. the international economy) is dictated by the supply and demand of those currencies on the open forex market. This is pretty far from “consolidated”.

Re: The Opium of the Intellectuals

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Interesting history and background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Aron It appears that traditional marxism has been largely coopted by identity politics, as an intentional strategy by the corporate powers that be. This is why you see companies that are absolutely brutal towards labor virtue signal about trendy left-wing social issues. Despite being deeply conservative, I see a lot of truth in Marx's analysis…

Fellow conservative here. Teddy Roosevelt had a balanced take on capitalism vs the rights of workers in one of his famous speeches. It "failed" at the time, but a lot of the principles ended up catching on: http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/t...

(Love the Chesterton quote BTW)

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