You can’t “debunk” Marxism by skimming the Wikipedia page. You can’t expound on your infantile “critique” from a position of total ignorance.

Every time a liberal “debunks” Marxism it is, without fail, not a single exception, the exact same shit that was discredited 150 years ago. A lot of “Marx didn’t consider”s that he’s written entire essays on. They can’t come up with literally anything new, spewing the same shit over and over again like a broken record.

Are liberals allergic to academic honesty?

And no I am not German I stole the screenshot.

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    Actually lol no I’m sad to say you’re far off, it was basically an extremely shitty anecdote about penicillin, she was literally recycling the microwave argument, i.e capitalism is successful because it allowed for mass production of things, and it just so happens some of these things were good.

    She somehow avoided bad mouthing socialism, I guess because then it would obviously become a political argument who knows. But she did say “Capitalism got a bad rap because Marx said something about the industrial revolution but that is another story.” I kid you not.

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      capitalism is successful because it allowed for mass production of things, and it just so happens some of these things were good

      to which the response is yes and socialism would allow for mass production to be done better and in more humane conditions

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      Ah yes, I probably should’ve figured a defence of capitalism would probably focus more on that sort of stuff. I can’t believe I was so wrong. Clearly communism has lead me astray, after all, under communism we would never had ifone or socks with Hogwarts houses on them. I can’t believe we’ve all missed this vital point that capitalism is good actually because stuff people need to survive is produced under it. Really a major flaw in communist theory really.

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      i.e capitalism is successful because it allowed for mass production of things

      Marx famously upheld the power of the bourgeois class in shifting production to modernity away from outdated feudal systems.