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Taking Marx away | SocialistWorker.org

A British company is attempting to get works by Marx and Engels removed from the Marxists Internet Archive, writes Scott McLemee in an article for Crooked ...

Is Marx for 'chaos and taking stuff away from us'? - Quora

So no. Marx is for ensuring that the means for wealth production are distributed evenly through the population. Marx's communist manifesto ...

Why do leftist movements seem so stuck on Marx? - Reddit

a frequent topic in leftist Marxist circles is actually what Marx got wrong. A commonly cited one is exactly what you have pin-pointed. Marx was ...

The Allure of Marxism ... And Why It's a Mistake

Marxists think that by owning capital, capitalists can take a cut of the value produced by workers. Marxists call this cut 'surplus value'. It's ...

In Marxist theory, how will the state "wither away"? : r/communism101

Who is there left to hold a dictatorship over? Once the answer is "no one", the state withers away. But the process of "withering away" begins ...

“Don't Read Marx” — How To Make Revolutionary Theory Accessible

One other pithy take I would add to this is that any time I see “anti-capitalist” it sets off alarms for me: if your political vision is ...

Marxism Without Progress - Boston Review

If you are still waiting for the workers of the world to unite, you should probably take a long look at the numbers of those around the world ...

Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis - The Guardian

As it turned out, the manifesto was right, albeit belatedly. It would take the collapse of the Soviet Union and the insertion of two billion ...

Why Marx was wrong | The Strategist

Under communism, his collaborator Friedrich Engels later claimed, the state itself would become unnecessary and 'wither away'. These assertions ...

Marxism Is Back—But Marxists Cannot Shake off the Soviet Legacy

In doing so, we took up a theory posed by dozens of thinkers from across the political spectrum. In this telling, the communist thinker owes his ...

Eight Marxist Claims That May Surprise You - Jacobin

It's as if you were to sculpt a statue, then someone took it from you, and you were never allowed to see or touch it again. Marx argued that workers were in a ...

Marxist States Never "Wither Away" as Marx Predicted - Mises Institute

Our author also makes an incisive criticism of Marx's endorsement of the “dictatorship of the proletariat.” Marx said that after a socialist ...

Why Marx Was Wrong by Carl Bildt - Project Syndicate

Fact based reality has never been so far away from Marx then ever. His labor theory of value was already wrong when he wrote it down. Value ...

March 1 - Marx's Theory of Alienation - York University

Alienation here, takes on the very specific historical form of the separation of worker and owner. That which I produced, or we produced, immediately becomes ...

Marxist concept of “withering away of the state”

If Marx had Leninist "vanguard" ideas and desire to capture the state and mold people into socialists using state power, I think it's fair to ...

20th WCP: Why Marxism Isn't Dead (Because Capitalism Isn't Dead)

' First, Marx's account of the forced extraction of surplus labor remains true. It constitutes an indictment of the process of capital accumulation because ...

Marx at his limits | MR Online

The bourgeoisie has torn away sentimental veils, Marx said in the Manifesto, and put in its stead “open, shameless, direct, bare exploitation.

Tearing Away the Veils: The Communist Manifesto - Dissent Magazine

Marx was appalled at the human costs of capitalist development, but he always believed the world horizon it created was a great human achievement, on which ...

What comes after the Proletarian revolution based on Marx ideas?

AIUI Marx thought that the coercive arms of the state would simply wither away from disuse. ... Did Karl Marx support taking over the means of ...

5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property) - FEE.org

Marx's manifesto is famous for summing up his theory of Communism with a ... We cannot take from them what they have not got. Since the ...