InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to history@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoAfter Marx deposits the manuscript of Capital by hand in Hamburg - he hangs out for the day with Bismarck's niece on the ferry back to London.i.imgur.comimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1imageAfter Marx deposits the manuscript of Capital by hand in Hamburg - he hangs out for the day with Bismarck's niece on the ferry back to London.i.imgur.comInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to history@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelumpiangshawarma [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s mostly the memes that has invented this persona around Marx, by people who have never read Marx and by academics who dislike him. Freud(interesting reactionary thinker) is also lambasted the same way. Marx is unclear for 99% of people and pretending it’s easy makes you look like a big-brained elitist. There are plenty of PhD fucks in the academic institution who cannot figure their way out of Freud and Marx, so no, it’s not because of elitism. Grad school media studies read Hegel/Lenin challenge.
It’s mostly the memes that has invented this persona around Marx, by people who have never read Marx and by academics who dislike him.
Freud(interesting reactionary thinker) is also lambasted the same way.
There are plenty of PhD fucks in the academic institution who cannot figure their way out of Freud and Marx, so no, it’s not because of elitism.
Grad school media studies read Hegel/Lenin challenge.