Reading Marx, Engels, and Lenin is equally enlightening and depressing because the capitalists didn’t change their ways at all. They only adapted to the new technologies to oppress the workers.
what amazes me is that Marx always seems to have a response to any criticism. But maybe that just means no one has changed their criticisms in over 150 years. I still hear liberals misunderstand the labor theory of value even though Marx describes it in the first 5 pages of Capital.
Lenin is probably the worst example they could’ve used too, like I think this idea could apply better to Marx than to Lenin
That’s not to say it applies to Marx either, just how Lenin’s writings are so prescient in the current moment, State and Revolution could’ve been written yesterday
Capital could also have been written yesterday, or the AntiDuhring. They are no less prescient to the current moment than Lenin, just harder to read bc less popular in style
Unironically what I believed before I actually read any theory.
Reading Marx, Engels, and Lenin is equally enlightening and depressing because the capitalists didn’t change their ways at all. They only adapted to the new technologies to oppress the workers.
what amazes me is that Marx always seems to have a response to any criticism. But maybe that just means no one has changed their criticisms in over 150 years. I still hear liberals misunderstand the labor theory of value even though Marx describes it in the first 5 pages of Capital.
Whenever liberals hear the term ‘Dictatorship of the proletariat’ : 😱
Lenin is probably the worst example they could’ve used too, like I think this idea could apply better to Marx than to Lenin
That’s not to say it applies to Marx either, just how Lenin’s writings are so prescient in the current moment, State and Revolution could’ve been written yesterday
Capital could also have been written yesterday, or the AntiDuhring. They are no less prescient to the current moment than Lenin, just harder to read bc less popular in style
I do think it’s weird that people often recommend Imperialism by Lenin as one of the Marxist theory books to read early though.