Comment Re:So, 2% procedural improvement (Score 1) 44
Here's the really odd thing I have noticed about Marx and Marxists though. .
See their method, their 'dialectic' boils down to this.
- 1. In any situation, on any question, look at how exactly the actors in the field get their _stuff_.
- 2. Divide the actors into two and only two groups, based on how they get their stuff. The boozhies and the proles.
- 3. Side with the Proles, defeat the Boozhies, end of class warfare (since everyone is now a prole.) This is presented not only as good and necessary but as *inevitable* since class warfare is a necessary consequence of classes themselves, it can only end when one class or the other is extinct.
- 4. Profit!
My take: Step one is real good. Step 2 - roughly legitimate analysis, but fatally over-simplified. Step 3 - fundamentally mistaken.
Now, what is odd is, Marx himself was clearly a boozhie. So was Engels. And in fact, every Marxist I have ever met in the flesh was too. High-nosed blue-blooded boozhies every one of them. Working people dont have time for that nonsense, you try to talk to them about Marx they roll their eyes up into their heads. With one exception, a young fisherman. Who turned out to be from a rich family. And about to get fired cause he kept screwing up.