cause they see boomers with all that stuff, why do you think most luxury cruises are filled with old people
One mistake of Marx??
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Jonathan James
I forgot most of you guys aren't from North America, lmao
Cooper Flores
Why are you a 30 year old north american boomer with a house, a john deer tractor and a speed boat?
Bentley Perez
Almost no 30 year old has any of that. I knew this meme was gonna go that far. Millenials are not Baby Boomers or even Gen X.
Charles Ross
That was indeed a big mistake and it was very wrong in many ways.
Russia might have been semi-feudal, but a lot of countries, including those which Marx with Engels loved like Germany and Austria at the time were also semi-feudal, ending feudalism around the same time Russia did. France ended feudalism only 50 years before Russia, however it is worth mentioning that many regions of Russia like Baltic's and major cities had ended feudalism long time ago. It is also worth mentioning that Russian Empire was third was fifth largest economy in the world at the time, and Polish crown was tenth, so European Russia, Warsaw, Belarus and Baltic's were rather industrialized.
Very specific theory that only very specific factory working proletariat will rebel against factory owners, rather than also city workers,peasants and overall poor people will rebel against the rich, ironically was also prevalent in Soviet textbook manuals. I find it very annoying, bad representation of overall leftism and very ultra specific sectarian.
Hudson Lewis
What you talking about? The Jacobins and Napoleon ended Feudalism in France, the Bourbons were an entirely bourgeois monarchy, let alone the reign of Louis Napoleon.
Grayson Cooper
Reminder that if you participate in the stock market you aren't a prole.
Camden King
He didn't realize just how effective imperialism would become.
Ian Green
I don't think he put it in those terms. His belief was that through capitalist development the countries of Western Europe would lay the groundwork for socialism. Other countries might follow a different path, but for countries already developing along capitalist lines the future was socialism.
And the idea that "rich countries" would be the first to embrace a revolution was not what he argued. His idea was that capitalism has a tendency to polarize the population between a few wealthy owners and large masses of workers. This, plus capitalism's economic instability, would make some kind of revolution necessary in the long-term. In one of his letters he admitted the possibility that in some non-capitalist societies there was a chance that development could occur along different lines, but he also pointed out that in Russia, specifically, that possibility was rapidly disappearing due to the introduction of capitalism.
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I would also restate that what was created in various 20th century socialist experiments was not socialism as envisioned by Marx or Engels (or even Lenin, for that matter.) These experiments created societies in which the economy was heavily regulated (far more than in any society that had ever existed) but maintained all the elements of capitalism. I have to hammer this point again and again because people don't read Marx or Lenin. What the 20th century socialist experiments achieved was to use centralized bureaucratic methods to introduce a capitalist methods and a fundamentally capitalist mode of production (factories, wage-labor, scientific management, etc) to backward societies and thereby develop economically in a period of time far shorter than was required historically. This was an impressive achievement but it was not what Marx had envisioned.
In Section III of Critique of the Gotha Program Marx explicitly argued against using state aid to "pave the way" for workers cooperatives when a majority of the population are peasants who are "neither ripe nor ready for rule."
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