“Communism bad”
“Why?”
200 year old tropes so ancient they were debunked by Marx himself
Of course, you go through the motions of explaining the most basic political concepts that could be grasped by skimming the cliff notes for literally any Marxist works
“Friedrich Engels? Is he like the president of Germany or something?”
It’s like a kindergartener trying to teach you calculus.
I doubt they’ve read a single word of Marx. They reed the Debooooonking articles but don’t care to read the original source material.
Imagine a prosecutor showing up to court with zero evidence other than “he just looks guilty”. That’s the liberal standard.
lol I just looked back at the same thread and found this amazing take by another Marx Understander
Had he lived to 200, he’d have become the methuselan overlord of Earth based solely on how messianic that seems
Reminds me of a debate I had.
Poster said “Marxists lack nuance”.
I asked which one of these works lacked nuance in his opinion: The German Ideology? The Grundrisse? Anti-Dühring? Or maybe slightly more recent stuff like Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks?
The reply: “Marxists don’t understand human nature: it’s about the stronger monkey having things.”
The irony didn’t even hit him. He was dead seriously try to sell me this “human natooor is strong dogs fuck” as a social theory.