Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: HiTech RedNeck; OddLane
Marx presented a false dichotomy. He asked whether capitalism was bad, and answered yes.

That's the wrong question to ask. The question to ask is whether and how. capitalism can be used to good or bad ends.

In the light of how capitalism eventually proved a wonderful gift to ordinary mortals this is true. The use and proliferation of the electricity system for one. The example of a man like Henry Ford for another. His idea of paying the working man enough to THEY could have a car worked well.

As a native Londoner, I have studied the life of Karl Marx in London. He was given political asylum there from three countries, who wanted to lay their hands on him. This was in Victorian times. I might be excused for speaking for a little understanding of Marx.

Some of the conditions for the working class in England were absolutely horrendous. Cotton Mill workers had a terribly low survival rate. Children worked down mines, including women. So bad was it that Marx could only see the capitalist system in that light.

Just a little ramble here by me, with a soft spot for Marx.

32 posted on 02/16/2017 6:06:51 PM PST by Peter Libra
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]


To: Peter Libra

So that excuses his stance on abolishing the family, religion and private property?

Child labor was steadily decreasing long before Marx showed up in London. Engels’ own father owned textile mills, and that’s how Engels got his money, which he was constantly forking out to Marx who couldn’t take care of his own kids.


34 posted on 02/16/2017 6:26:01 PM PST by Olog-hai
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson