Oh crap. I just fell asleep for 3 hours unintentionally and missed two Skype appointments. I am just so tired.
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Yes, this. Had I been alive in any of the first six decades of the 20th century I suspect I would have been a Marxist.
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Metaphorically, any close approach to Marxism is akin to an orbit near to a Black Hole’s
event horizon: possibly stable, but with a gargantuan risk.pic.twitter.com/GyfP0wSbKc
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Marxism is bloody and destructive in practice *and* theory.https://www.amazon.com/SOCIALISM-SOCIOPATHIC-PHILOSOPHY-CULMINATING-ENSLAVEMENT-ebook/dp/B07GN8WJB1 …
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Whoa whoa whoa, how did this tweet get past Twitter’s “Nuanced Opinion Filter”? (which doesn’t actually exist...or does it?)
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I was a little Communist in HS. It's such a lovely idea to think that everyone's needs can be met appropriately. And society definitely has the resources. But it can never work due to human nature. People in power will abuse it, others will not contribute, etc., etc.
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I think I felt a twinge of what Einstein did when he learned of the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics. "Every man according to his needs/means" was my "God does not play dice."
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European Social Democrats used to be a great half way point between savage capitalism and communism. Now they went full lefty on social issues far more extreme than orthodox marxists. And the few that resisted are now labeled as right wing neo-liberals.
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Sociopaths and their darn tendency to seek positions of power over others ruins it every time. Great paper theory with no balance once the government gets too much power.
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You seem too reality based to be a social Dem. I’m guessing you’ll come around with age. :)
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Depends on what you mean by "in practice." "Marxism" is a term that can cover everything from the German SPD and Red Vienna to Stalin's Soviet Union and Mao's China. Historically, Marxism only becomes totalitarian or kills in large numbers when attached to a Leninist apparatus.
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and, not coincidentally, Marxists never come to power without a Leninist apparatus
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You seem to have missed the entire first part of the tweet. I know 280 characters is a lot for some to handle, but do feel free to try again.
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No I didn't miss it, I just didn't take seriously the idea that SPD is "Marxist." You can do some historical reading about "revisionism" if you like. And perhaps bone up on historical materialism and the inevitability of revolution.
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I used to feel that way about Marxism until I realised I hate sharing
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I understand these results as not a tendency of Marxism, but as the actual endgame of the ideas themselves. There’s no getting around it. Marxism produces monstrously murderous totalitarian regimes, inevitably.
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I don’t think it’s the endgame of that particular set of ideas, but I always felt Marx and his intellectual progeny underestimated just how awful many individuals are.
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