Marx was totally right! No, Marx was totally wrong! It's neither. Marx wrote some interesting philosophy--my favorite is "On the Jewish Question"--and correctly identified some flaws in capitalism. His proposals to address those flaws are terrible, and caused immense suffering.
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Proletarians in a social democracy who vote for progressive lawmakers are, in a bourgeois way, getting some control over the means of production from executive/manager owners; votes for conservatives, in this watered-down way, are counter-revolutionary.
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Taking action from the ownership-of-means-of-production perspective isn't innately authoritarian; the idea is to put authority in the hands where it belongs (about which one can argue, of course). I don't know if non-self-defeating revolution is possible, but whence else justice?
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And not, I hope, to labor the point, but how fair is it to tie the name *Marx* to the decay of revolutionary action in the 20th c into deprivation of rights and mass murder? Where, for example, does Marx advocate killing his intellectual opponents for publishing their opinions??
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