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?"
Another example I can give, from personal experience, is my teacher of Political Science (boring ass course lol) at Uni, who told us first lesson that we needed to dismiss the notion of all human societies history being the history class struggle, without even telling us why in the first place (his explanation was a weird ass comparisons to why a leaf falls from a tree, which he ended up debunking himself later??).
Later on in the course he quoted Capital (yes, from mister Marx himself) as he was talking about economics, in order to backup his lesson point. Lmao
why... why does a leaf fall from a tree?
his reasoning was more like
Later on in this very same class, he went on to describe exactly what physical forces guided the leaf as it fell from the tree. No mention of Marx tho.
And I didn't even misinterpret this: he clearly said "one must fight this Marxist idea that history is but the history of class struggle."
it feels appropriate that a capitalist would use the same kind of argument christians use for the existence of god. the one I heard was, "no one knows where the wind comes from" or something.
now that I think about it, these aren't reasons for anything, they are an appeal to forgo critical thinking. They only make sense if you never ask, "Why can't I know how the leaf falls from the tree and figure out where iit might land?" or maybe, "I'm pretty sure someone with a passable knowledge of first year physics could give me a rough idea."