To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Marx and Engels. The writing is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of materialist dialectics most of the points will go over a typical reader’s head. There’s also Marx’s historical outlook, which is deftly woven into his economic analysis- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Hegel, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these contradictions, to realise that they’re not just groundbreaking- they say something deep about SOCIETY. As a consequence people who dislike Marx and Engels truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the brilliance in Marx’s existential catchphrase “Hippity hoppity give me your property” which itself is a cryptic reference to Proudhon’s Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Lenin’s genius wit unfolds itself around the world. What fools… how I pity them.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Marx and Engels. The writing is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of materialist dialectics most of the points will go over a typical reader’s head. There’s also Marx’s historical outlook, which is deftly woven into his economic analysis- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Hegel, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these contradictions, to realise that they’re not just groundbreaking- they say something deep about SOCIETY. As a consequence people who dislike Marx and Engels truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the brilliance in Marx’s existential catchphrase “Hippity hoppity give me your property” which itself is a cryptic reference to Proudhon’s Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Lenin’s genius wit unfolds itself around the world. What fools… how I pity them.