Karl Marx (note the completely non-Hebrew first name) batted the breeze a whole, whole, lot. He was a talker. The people who killed were Engels, Lenin, Stalin. Marx died in 1885. He was long dead by 1917. Nobody ever had to listen to him, and nobody should have. It should have been possible to reform Russia without reading one word of Marx. If Marx had never lived, Russia would have figured itself out anyway.
The labor movement long predates Marx. He was born in 1818 and not active before the 1840s. He can't take credit for workers asserting themselves.
He said, "I am not a Marxist." Marx himself said he was not a Marxist. Marx's father was a secular Jew. His grandparents were normal people who did normative Judaism.
The nineteenth century, a time of rapid and painful industrialization, produced many silly or cranky Utopians. Marx was one.
Marx exhibits the appeal of language that is disconnected from reality. He exhibits language as an entertainment medium, but without a stage, costumes, actors, and the acknowledgment that we are watching a staged play. Theater without the theater, theater that does not admit it is theater. Marx's writings are just the cry of a man from whom religion has been torn. Aesop wrote of the dog in the manger. Marx was miserable, a Jew robbed of Judaism.
He talked a lot of nonsense as a result. Sad.
That anybody used his nonsense to do harm is bad, but that's their fault.
That era is over. There are no real Marxists anymore, and that is good. After all, the world is now much more prosperous and just than when Marx lived.
People love to fight the last war.
It's just so easy. And .... entertaining. It's all for the entertainment.
Karl Marx (note the completely non-Hebrew first name) batted the breeze a whole, whole, lot. He was a talker. The people who killed were Engels, Lenin, Stalin. Marx died in 1885. He was long dead by 1917. Nobody ever had to listen to him, and nobody should have. It should have been possible to reform Russia without reading one word of Marx. If Marx had never lived, Russia would have figured itself out anyway.
The labor movement long predates Marx. He was born in 1818 and not active before the 1840s. He can't take credit for workers asserting themselves.
He said, "I am not a Marxist." Marx himself said he was not a Marxist. Marx's father was a secular Jew. His grandparents were normal people who did normative Judaism.
The nineteenth century, a time of rapid and painful industrialization, produced many silly or cranky Utopians. Marx was one.
Marx exhibits the appeal of language that is disconnected from reality. He exhibits language as an entertainment medium, but without a stage, costumes, actors, and the acknowledgment that we are watching a staged play. Theater without the theater, theater that does not admit it is theater. Marx's writings are just the cry of a man from whom religion has been torn. Aesop wrote of the dog in the manger. Marx was miserable, a Jew robbed of Judaism.
He talked a lot of nonsense as a result. Sad.
That anybody used his nonsense to do harm is bad, but that's their fault.
That era is over. There are no real Marxists anymore, and that is good. After all, the world is now much more prosperous and just than when Marx lived.
People love to fight the last war.
It's just so easy. And .... entertaining. It's all for the entertainment.
Pretending to be a Marxist today is mere LARPing.
His mom was a jew, he was a jew.