After reading all the philosophy slop /lit/ has recommended: Hegel, Kant, Plato, Aristotle, Stirner, deluze, zizek, foucault. I finally sat down to read pic related and am now exceedingly frustrated I had wasted my time trying capital first and none of you told me to start here. Marx is literally telling them all to touch grass in the most eloquent shitpost I’ve ever read. Based does not even begin to explain it.
>>23618147Yeah man, it rips
>>23618147>No baudrillard
>>23618190I still got a soft spot for the guy. I couldn’t convince myself to google how to spell his name right and add him to the list.
>>23618147>each new revolution is going to have a wider baseWhy? Because of his remixed Hegelianism?
>>23618147>and none of you told me to start here.Turn of 20th century and Marxists turned Neo-Kantian to the point of at times making Hegel reading verboten. The economic theory was always window dressing for a science of ochlocratic usurpation and agitation and an infohazard bankrolled by Malthusians to sabotage Thirdie birth rates and industrialization There's hardly any reason to bother apart from the overtly political and op picrel, "There is no Marxist 'orthodoxy'!" as Lenin put it (meaning the ends absolutely justify the means, hence the New Economic Policy period in the 1920s playing state capitalism possum and inviting foreign investment, or Beijing getting Kissinger gibs for the past 50 years)
>>23618147>and none of you told me to start here.Enjoy your bourgeois idealism.
>>23618147>Marx is literally telling them all to touch grass in the most eloquent shitpost I’ve ever read. Based does not even begin to explain it.Yes typical hypocrisy. Marx is the usual atheist midwit who delude himself he figured it out: it took what he saw in England 1840 and since he is an atheist worm, he extrapolated the situation thru space and time saying that literally everybody everywhere lived through class struggle to realize his universalist and progressist fantasy. And as a piece of shit atheists he can't even think he's wrong. He starts an hysterical rant as soon as he hears any criticism.
Why didn't Marxoid never started the journey by Reading Adam Smith and David Ricardo? Marx's philosophy is literally the extension and critique of their economic views.Reading Kapital with an expectation to understand it without reading the prerequisites. Literally Dunning-Kruger effect.
>>23618334>Why didn't Marxoid never started the journeyWhat is your primary language?
>>23618334An honest marxist would start with Aristotle's views on trade and value theory and Xenophon's Oikonomikos.
>>23618334It's honestly a two-way street. You think all of those people who worship Adam Smith as God of the Free Market actually know he believed in labor theory of value or his opinion on landlords? Just like the majority of those who profess to love Marx, those who profess to love Smith don't read him most of the time either
>>23618421>all of those people who worship Adam Smith as God of the Free MarketLiterally not a single person does this.
>>23618147His fans are why I can’t really get into him
>>23618147That's how I was introduced into Marx.
>>23618147If you think this is a diss, wait till you read "The Poverty of Philosophy"
>>23618303>The economic theory was always window dressing for a science of ochlocratic usurpation and agitationThis. Nothing is ever about economics.
>>23618455Lots of americans who hold "right wing economic views" do. None of them ever read primary sources though, they just regurgitate Friedman's takes that they read in WSJ or somesuch. It's very frustrating because I disagree with socialists, but these idiots are supposed to be my allies on the economic right, but they can't articulate what's actually wrong with western regimes beyond 'muh printing causes inflashun', which they forget about anyway the second low rates have a positive effect on their 401Kst. Adam Smith enjoyer
>>23618147Glad to hear it anon, keep going!
