Seriously tho, 99% of the criticisms that completely deny Marxism I have ever heard came from people whose arguments could simply have been answered by "maybe actually read Marx?"
Seriously tho, 99% of the criticisms that completely deny Marxism I have ever heard came from people whose arguments could simply have been answered by "maybe actually read Marx?"
Yeh, 100%, I wasn’t accusing you of saying that. Just saying in general we need to be careful with that, I think it turns some people off Marxism because they think we’re a bunch of religious zealots obsessed with a 150 year old book.
To your original point, my favourite case of this was peterson showing up to debate Zizek about Marxism having basically skimmed the manifesto as preparation. What a clown.
I avoided citing this as an example at first because it seemed a bit unfair; like, Peterson is an idiot but I wanted to separate the fact that he hadn't done his homework (which was completely on him for being a dumbass) from the fact that completely dismissing Marx was impossible. But again if Peterson had actually read Marx maybe there wouldn't have been a debate at all lol