[MarkL]

Marx was so full of s**t, but on top of that, his writing is SO BORING!!! I took a marxist economics class in college, and I actually got a pretty good grade in the class ( B+ ), but it was so full of crap. His whole concept of value added through work was the sort of stuff that only someone who's never created something could understand, along with dilectical materialism to confuse the hell out of anyone who questioned his theories.

Marx's theories require a totalitarian, utopian society, because it looks on man as being a hive creature, no different than a worker ant or bee. And if you don't want to participate in the utopia, you must be eliminated.

Mark

[starfish923]

In Greek the word utopia actually means "nowhere."
THAT describes Marx and his mess.
Even as a young, willing-to-beliee 19-year-old, his entire thesis made no sense.
He WAS full of Scheiße.

[Sonny M]

His whole concept of value added through work was the sort of stuff that only someone who's never created something could understand, along with dilectical materialism to confuse the hell out of anyone who questioned his theories.

Mostly because he wasn't actually a economist, but a philospher who thought of himself as an economist.

Ironically, he wasn't even the smarter of the duo (the other being Engels).

He stole some previous writings from others, through his own spin on it, daydreamed, and created what essentially is just class warfare rhetoric.

The chinese communists (Mao in particular) read his stuff, knew he was a crackpot, and deviated from it but still imposed harsh and brutal results and methods that were still insane.

Maos version of communism, while still tragic in its effects, did deviate from tradional marxism while still maintaining its communist identity.