I love seeing these gross misunderstandings of the communist manifesto. In the same book, Marx goes from talking about a possible end goal for socialism, then provides an argument for how to reach it. These people just see the possible end goal bit and are like “oh yes, obviously this means he was anti-authority” without later reading the bit where he’s somewhat directly talking about the need for state socialism.
Marx: “The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.”
Ancoms: "Wait a second I thought Engels was the tankie not Marx :loudly crying face: "
I love seeing these gross misunderstandings of the communist manifesto. In the same book, Marx goes from talking about a possible end goal for socialism, then provides an argument for how to reach it. These people just see the possible end goal bit and are like “oh yes, obviously this means he was anti-authority” without later reading the bit where he’s somewhat directly talking about the need for state socialism.
Marx: “The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.”
Ancoms: "Wait a second I thought Engels was the tankie not Marx :loudly crying face: "