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Question: Why do people hate Karl Marx!?
I am a college student and I am currently studying Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto!. As far as I can tell, Marx was just a man who wanted the best for his society!. He was happy that society had progressed to capitalism, but longed for the freedom of the proletarian (working class)!. That freedom would come through a communist government!. Marx never called for economic equality for society, but freedom from oppressors!. I challenge you to find a passage in which Marx calls for equality!. also, why do people blame Marx for the mistakes of the USSR!? Marx did not create the USSR, he died long before it was ever created!. Can he be blamed for someone else perverting his ideas and theories!? I think people give Marx a worse wrap than he deserves based only on fallacies placed upon us by others!. I think few people who would proudly state an opinion about Marx has ever read his text!. Your turn, what do you think!. 10 points to the best argument/most entertaining!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
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You have to understand that the average person on here and in real life is about as sharp as an obtuse angle!. Half the people probably couldn't tell you who Karl Marx is, and the other half will talk about how Russia was evil, China is evil, and then they'll throw some "socialism" comments and comments about Germany after the second world war and you'll see what I mean!.
Marx just wanted the best for his people!. No one has yet been able to successfully apply his theories to a society because he didn't count on the general greed and hatred of the average human being!. People abuse the system and it collapses unfortunately!. If there was some way to get communism to work properly it would be good but I don't want to go down that road knowing that humans would be the ones putting the policies into place!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
People hate Marx because he was good enough at making a case for his system that many people took it seriously, and that turns out to have been a disaster, so it goes back to him, at least in part, for promoting a system that only looks good on paper, but appears to appeal to persons who want to impose it by force and then kill millions of innocents who just aren't that keen on it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
All philosophies while they repose on paper are perfect! People, however, are not perfect!. Communism (and everything else!) would
probably be wonderful, if we could locate the correct saints to instrument them!.!.!.and that cannot happen!. Of course, in the United States, we had a fifty-year campaign of propaganda and hatred
against Communism, which many people now extend to anything left of Atilla the Hun, so the Cold War left the U!.S!. somehow strangely
blind to whole categories of social justice, merely because some imbecile will call them "communistic"!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
communism can work!. just not on scale Marx would want!. the philosophy can be successfully applied in small towns!. but it fails miserably when applied to metropolitan cities!. Russia and china are simply too big in terms of population and territory!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
Karl Marx was Marxist, he believed that through communism humans can achieve perfection, but this system was easily corrupted making perfection harder to reach!. He also thought capitalism was based on exploitation!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Marx died over a century ago, and I have read every word he wrote which is accessible in German AND English!. I realize people hate the philosophy that he and Engels concocted because of what the REAL government became!. Why they would loathe anyone who is basically a rather hopeful philosopher, I understand only in those terms!. Much like other Utopian philosophies, Communism had
the practical issue of people who are inherently flawed and frequently corrupt!. Capitalism has the same problem! Difference is, of course,
when the state owns and controls everything and has all the power, mistakes are magnified and amplified, and a real BEAST like Stalin took a pure, left wing philosophy and became "The Communist Czar", only he had far more actual power!. I wonder sometimes what Communism might have become had Lenin lived ten years longer, or had Trotsky succeeded him!. But we have been heavily propagandized in the west to detest anything to do with Communism, and without really understanding it, anything liberal is labeled "socialistic" in this country and draws the same kind of ignorant vitriol!. Neither Marx nor Engels ever worked in or for a Communist government, or ever even saw one!. The prediction the philosophy would take deepest and earliest root in England proved to be wrong, though Marx IS buried there!. Were Marx revivified today and reviewed much of what was done in his name, he would be revolted, too!. That's what happens when philosophies and ideals
are put into the hands of men with more practical and, often, sinister agendas!. Interestingly, Marx's core economic axiom--that all political and social action flows from capital (money)
was very controversial and condemned in the 19th Century, but today, is almost the universal explanation for any sort of
program or position!. In the end, that little tidbit ended up dominating the RIGHT and the LEFT!Www@QuestionHome@Com
Karl Marx is like all the other great political theorists of any time!. But they all have to find the basic fault line of man!. Is man basically evil(Hobbes) or is he basically good (Calvin)!. Marx believed that man was basically good, unfortunately, for Marx, Jefferson, Paine, Thoreau, man is evil!. Man will become corrupt if left to his own means for to long!. That is why the United States we live in a Republic, and not Agrarian Democracy of Jefferson, or the Urban Utopias of Paine, or the Naturalist havens of Thoreau!. Marxism never works because the proletariat is to easily corrupted!. It becomes more about maintaining power than for the good of the people!. There is never any checks and balances for the people to reign in the power and gain their freedom back!. Even Jefferson was appalled during the Jackson election how corruptible democracy was and wained for the return to Republicanism!. But it was to late, the people had begun to taste the power and never was it to return it to the chosen few!. If you read the earlier political Theorists before Marx, then read Marx, you will see a ton of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, but what you wont see in Marx is the French Revolution, Haitian Rebellion and the Guillotine!. All you see is the flowers and butterflies and everyone singing Kumbya!. Not the blood and the power grabs and the prisons and the ugliness that comes from corruption!. That you get from History and the real life world that people live in!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Marxism: To each according to his needs!. From each according to his abilities!. This is the basic tenet of Marxism that is against every fiber in my being!.
Once a society bases its allocation of resources on need rather that ability, that society is doomed!. Fact!. Period!.
What is my motivation as a man of ability to produce so that others may enjoy the fruits of my labor!? Why did so many men of ability flee to the West after the Soviet Union drew up the Iron Curtain over Eastern Europe!? Why is it moral for the poor, uneducated, lazy, to demand the fruits of my labor (taxation), but it is immoral of me to wish to keep what I have been working my *** off for all these years!?
Read Ayn Rand for a rebuttal to Marx!. If anyone can read We The Living and stll be a Marxist, please let me know!.Www@QuestionHome@Com