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- Feb 5, 2021
This is going to be scattered but Karl Marx is a bullshitter and asshole who would've been a lolcow if he were alive today. Let me explain my reasoning, starting with some of the shit he wrote and his character.
He wrote revisionist history about the French Revolutions to make it his wet dream worker's revolutions. In particular liked to portray the 1848 one as a worker's one and not people upset at the July Monarchy for having increasingly bad policy making and despite the fact the revolutionary leaders outright rejected socialism of the era and the red flag he liked to say the revolution was betrayed by the French Conservatives who went against the will of the people.
He also wrote that the revolution would happen in an industrialized nation like America, France, or the UK. Instead, his glorious revolution happened in a backwards shithole called the Russian Empire, and only after Communist exiles were sent into the country by the German Empire when the revolutionaries who overthrew the monarchy in favor of a republic stayed in WW1. Even then they only succeeded when they were allowed to take up arms from said government to quell a insurrection and quickly turned on their retarded allies in Moscow from soon to be renamed Leningrad.
Marx, despite claiming to support workers, never knew workers or worked a day in his life. He was a upper class man from his birth and all his socialist friends were similarly raised, either sons of professors or factory owners. None of these people actually worked in factories or asked workers their thoughts on labor. His very labor theories made no fucking sense, and shit like the value of labor was never put to an actual test.
Marx also regularly yelled at and stormed out of meetings with said friends of his in English pubs, because they disagreed with him. These same friends he relied on for charity and lending him money he never paid back, because he refused to get a job and instead wrote his stupid theories all his life.
His relationships with his family were equally bad from letters preserved. He was estranged from his father, who cared for him until the day he died, asking his son to visit him. His sister was similarly worried for him and asked him to get a job and to quit begging for donations. The only times Marx wrote to his family was asking for money or to insult them for not believing his cause.
Because of his refusal to get a job at anything, his wife and children lived in poverty and he smelled like shit. He wanted to LARP a wealthy man though and chose to live in a pricey (for the period) home that he couldn't afford without begging. Two of his daughters would end up committing suicide after his death and he abused all of his children. He also cheated on hiss wife with his paid and never acknowledged the son he had with her in his entire life. This maid was his only interaction with the working class in his entire life.
Why the fuck was this asshole ever taken seriously.
He wrote revisionist history about the French Revolutions to make it his wet dream worker's revolutions. In particular liked to portray the 1848 one as a worker's one and not people upset at the July Monarchy for having increasingly bad policy making and despite the fact the revolutionary leaders outright rejected socialism of the era and the red flag he liked to say the revolution was betrayed by the French Conservatives who went against the will of the people.
He also wrote that the revolution would happen in an industrialized nation like America, France, or the UK. Instead, his glorious revolution happened in a backwards shithole called the Russian Empire, and only after Communist exiles were sent into the country by the German Empire when the revolutionaries who overthrew the monarchy in favor of a republic stayed in WW1. Even then they only succeeded when they were allowed to take up arms from said government to quell a insurrection and quickly turned on their retarded allies in Moscow from soon to be renamed Leningrad.
Marx, despite claiming to support workers, never knew workers or worked a day in his life. He was a upper class man from his birth and all his socialist friends were similarly raised, either sons of professors or factory owners. None of these people actually worked in factories or asked workers their thoughts on labor. His very labor theories made no fucking sense, and shit like the value of labor was never put to an actual test.
Marx also regularly yelled at and stormed out of meetings with said friends of his in English pubs, because they disagreed with him. These same friends he relied on for charity and lending him money he never paid back, because he refused to get a job and instead wrote his stupid theories all his life.
His relationships with his family were equally bad from letters preserved. He was estranged from his father, who cared for him until the day he died, asking his son to visit him. His sister was similarly worried for him and asked him to get a job and to quit begging for donations. The only times Marx wrote to his family was asking for money or to insult them for not believing his cause.
Because of his refusal to get a job at anything, his wife and children lived in poverty and he smelled like shit. He wanted to LARP a wealthy man though and chose to live in a pricey (for the period) home that he couldn't afford without begging. Two of his daughters would end up committing suicide after his death and he abused all of his children. He also cheated on hiss wife with his paid and never acknowledged the son he had with her in his entire life. This maid was his only interaction with the working class in his entire life.
Why the fuck was this asshole ever taken seriously.
