[WayneS]

Marx sharply criticized those who tried to solve their problems philosophically or religiously, i.e., in thought, and advocated that they can only be solved by changing reality in practice so that the problem disappears.

By that logic, the next time a marxist makes me angry I should simply kill him, thereby "changing reality in practice" so that my problem "disappears", instead of just walking away and reminding myself that the world is big enough to house people of differing political philosophies. Someone please correct me if I have misinterpreted Herr Marx.

[blueunicorn6]

I actually read Das Kapital. It’s like reading a phone book. I dare you to read the first 50 pages and stay awake. You don’t have to take Marx apart because the Democrats/liberals/socialists don’t actually read his crap. They just want to take power and find they can’t do it in the system they’re in. So, they start talking about redistributing land and wealth and the stupid in the society believe them, and kill a bunch of innocent people, and then put in charge the people who weren’t smart enough to rise to the top in the old society. Talk about a death-spiral of government.

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[MarkL]

Back in college I needed a "300 level" economics course, and the only one I could fit into my schedule was "Marxist Economics." I tried reading "Das Kapital," but it was the most boring book I have tried reading since Sinclair Lewis's "Babbit." I never did more than a few pages into it, so I wound up reading all sorts of things written about "Das Kapital."

My number one problem with Marx's entire philosophy was his reliance on "Dialectical Materialism," which in effect ignores the fact that economies are NOT static systems. It also infers that we can understand anything, and then change it. And that man is the master of the world, and nothing is beyond his reach. Sort of like saying that if we understand a wild animal we can control it. Interestingly enough, that may work from time to time, but once it doesn't work, bad things happen.

Mark

[mjp]

Marx sharply criticized those who tried to solve their problems philosophically or religiously, i.e., in thought

Virtually every individual profesing to be a Marxist/Leninist believes dialectical materialism is the proper philosophy for understanding and changing the world. Indeed, what dialectical materialism is to the Marxist, God is to the Christian, Virtually all the ways Christians describe God - eternal, infinite, uncreated, indestructible, lawgiver, life, mind, etc. - Marxists assign to dialectical matter. Making matter the essence of all things is called metaphysical materialism, This philosophy affirms matter as ultimately real and denies the reality of God. It is a "sort of godless theology."

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