Everyone talks about hypothetically going back in time to kill Hitler, but no one talks about hypothetically going back in time to kill Marx.
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Replying to @Supreme_Owl_FTW
I feel like that line of thinking opens an unwieldy rabbit hole where we would continue to trace back the lineage of philosophical tradition much further than necessary.
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Replying to @M_Methuselah @Supreme_Owl_FTW
Basically, Marx was to Stalin and Mao what Darwin was to Hitler and Mussolini.
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Marx was describing the suffering brought on by early capitalism and developed a theory of historical determinism. He was not advocating war
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Replying to @Plinz @Supreme_Owl_FTW
Yet Darwin's theory very accurately describes the biological domain to which it is applicable, but Marx's theory is very inaccurate regarding the historical domain. Additionally, evolution as applied has no moral framework, while communism as applied is itself a moral framework.
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All subsequent violence and war supposedly inspired by evolution was caused by the inapropriate construction a moral framework around the theory. Violence and war supposedly inspired by communism was caused by the moral framework that is itself communism.
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Replying to @M_Methuselah @Supreme_Owl_FTW
Marx' idea of intrinsic crisis in capitalism was basically correct. He had no way of foreseeing the horrors of stalinism.
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Replying to @Plinz @Supreme_Owl_FTW
A theory is only correct if it has predictive as well as descriptive power. Marx failed to predict the horrors of Stalinism because his understanding of history, morality, and economics was wrong. Darwin successfully predicted Morgan's sphinx moth. The theory itself, much more.
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Replying to @M_Methuselah @Supreme_Owl_FTW
Marx theory had a number of flaws, but it might turn out to be essentially correct once AI destroys the labor based economy...
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I suspect that you did not actually read Marx and mix him up with Marxism/Leninism and Marxist ideologies?
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Replying to @Plinz @Supreme_Owl_FTW
That's like saying that I'm mixing up the words of the bible with christianity the religion. Christianity is more than the bible, yet all of the bible is the domain of christianity. Similarly, all of Marx's theory is the domain of Marxism and Marxist ideologies.
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