Oddbean new post about login | logout Literally in the Communist Manifesto itself. https://image.nostr.build/dac614a89eda3f95aecfe1e2a6b4fbc577277f477d83e5fc4d4c83c0e26cb167.jpg
Wow
“Well if that were true I would’ve heard about it in the NYT. They didn’t teach that at Yale or Wharton. You’re over exaggerating anyway, who cares what Marx said.” https://image.nostr.build/e2c99444b021d7eafb706844d7ba6f32b2e4e481323cb81f3605e4e6c3c2711b.jpg
Most Communists I've talked to haven't even read any Marx.
isnt that hilarious in a scary retarded kinda way?
100% It happens with a lot of different subjects. I get called "bias" and in an "echo chamber", yet I read more leftist literature than they ever have.
projecta-tards dont know how few people went to Marx funeral on account of him being a truly abysmal human being?
The way he treated his family was brutal. He truly was a despicable man.
i had no idea. i finally sat down and started reading Marx expecting to find challenging arguments and lucid points. what i found instead was an elementary analysis of events followed by a complete misunderstanding of cause and effect. i was actually kinda shocked. i expected much more weight from such a famous thinker. but then he wasnt a thinker. he was a bitter reactor
Shit! You are going to make me read it. 😩
no. i wont. id rather make kimchi
I just read a real good short story by amor towles, “New York: The Line” it is how capitalism springs forth even in the mist of complete communist authoritarian control. It also hints at reasons for the impulse to collectivism in the people. The story is funny, heart warming and a thought provoking. Of course, I am not doing the story any justice. Too lazy.
When I first read Capital I had to gaslight myself into thinking I must be stupid for not seeing the genius that everyone else claimed to see. Took me quite a while to admit that to myself.
I read Das Kapital after Smith's Wealth of Nations. I can't believe people think of these two as equal in philosophical prowess.
that’s the thing right? people (some people) think you’re just being mean or hyperbolic by saying Marx was kind of retarded. But that is being said, because he was actually kinda retarded.
https://image.nostr.build/2d3dfdcaedf88e57ee46f0a7b387b54bcc119d6d0a877463ca2431905df66972.jpg I think this is part of the problem some people have. They won't believe you, even though you've done the PoW by reading the literature. Instead of don't the work themselves, they'll just assume you're wrong, because consensus says that Marx is a great man of history.
Thought I had this with Marx, but Keynes will do too. https://image.nostr.build/a09460cd508a457d1fdfb4aed827ebc60abddd71935806b3a3bb10ece834c1a2.jpg
In my opinion, Keynes is wrong but intelligent. I find Marx both wrong and retarded 😂
Keynes was also a child rapist
A creepy realization is that all 8 points have already been implemented to a partial degree in the US economy. Each can likely continue to progress without much pushback by the general public if done slowly enough.
