I've had two people tell me they can't read Marx because they're afraid only a few sentences would leave them brainwashed. One countered my request to read Marx with "Well you wouldn't read Hitler, would you? What if you become a Nazi?" I mentioned it's possible to read something critically without suddenly subscribing to its contents and never got a response.
I've had a few family members who previously identified as politically unaffiliated start identifying themselves as fascists after I explained to them what fascism entails
They think I'm a liberal and that they can egg me into apologizing for my political stances or making a compromise with their more bigoted beliefs. They just want to feel like they've owned me and I guess liberals they interact with are more easily pushed into a corner.
This was my stance before reading the manifesto, thinking that I can't be converted to something just by reading a 'scary book'. I soon realized that it wasn't about totalitarianism and genocide.
Libs and especially conservatives have this irrational fear of Marx, as if his books are the Necronomicon and merely glancing at a page leads to you getting mindfucked and possessed by otherworldly forces. Motherfucker it's just a book, you can read things you don't agree with lmao
Yeah, it's weird. Outside of his outright political writings, Marx's work is just him studying history, philosophy and economics trying to figure out the laws of human history. Communism was just the natural discovery he arrived at during that process. You could legit slip Adam Smith's name on a volume of Capital and libs wouldn't be able to tell the difference lmao
Fair enough, I can see how they'd be opposed to reading Marx. I completely forgot what it's like to put down a shit book after years of pushing through complete garbage like Julius Evola lmfao
It really is some Satanic Panic shit. They think if they crack open the book, demons and banshees will fly out of it like some cursed ancient spellbook.
No, didn't you read the interview? It's not superstition, it's just too hard. Are you really expecting economists to actually study economic theory? It's not like uneducated farmers in the early 1900's could study and understand it, it's really high level stuff with big words like "bourgeoisie" and "linen".
Motherfuckers out here really just be GUESSING at what Marx wrote, not a lick of academic rigor or integrity
Liberals are literally too superstitious to read Marx lol
I've had two people tell me they can't read Marx because they're afraid only a few sentences would leave them brainwashed. One countered my request to read Marx with "Well you wouldn't read Hitler, would you? What if you become a Nazi?" I mentioned it's possible to read something critically without suddenly subscribing to its contents and never got a response.
A few sentences of Marx certainly leaves me tired and in need of a snack
If reading Hitler makes you a Nazi, you were already a Nazi.
I've had a few family members who previously identified as politically unaffiliated start identifying themselves as fascists after I explained to them what fascism entails
The words allowed them to describe their existing beliefs
Yeah, they've tried a few times to blame me for making them into fascists, but I've realized how nonsense that is.
Hwut? That’s crazy
They think I'm a liberal and that they can egg me into apologizing for my political stances or making a compromise with their more bigoted beliefs. They just want to feel like they've owned me and I guess liberals they interact with are more easily pushed into a corner.
This was my stance before reading the manifesto, thinking that I can't be converted to something just by reading a 'scary book'. I soon realized that it wasn't about totalitarianism and genocide.
They're afraid lmao
I don't know why, but my mind immediately went to the ending of Starship Troopers with Neil Patrick Harris
Libs and especially conservatives have this irrational fear of Marx, as if his books are the Necronomicon and merely glancing at a page leads to you getting mindfucked and possessed by otherworldly forces. Motherfucker it's just a book, you can read things you don't agree with lmao
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Yeah, it's weird. Outside of his outright political writings, Marx's work is just him studying history, philosophy and economics trying to figure out the laws of human history. Communism was just the natural discovery he arrived at during that process. You could legit slip Adam Smith's name on a volume of Capital and libs wouldn't be able to tell the difference lmao
It is a view of capitalism antithetical to the Milton Friedman tier content Americans are raised on.
In that sense, it advocates for an understanding of the function of the economy contrary to what we've been lead to believe.
Gonna put on dark ritual music and use the vibe to trick myself into reading theory
I mean, I tossed The Road to Serfdom after the first two chapters because it was just so backwards and demonstrably incorrect.
At a certain point, your priors will get in the way of appreciating content. Some of these works are bad enough to make my skin crawl.
I imagine that's what it is like for a Neoliberal or Conservative to read Marx.
Fair enough, I can see how they'd be opposed to reading Marx. I completely forgot what it's like to put down a shit book after years of pushing through complete garbage like Julius Evola lmfao
It really is some Satanic Panic shit. They think if they crack open the book, demons and banshees will fly out of it like some cursed ancient spellbook.
:specter: :anarchist-occult: :trans-specter:
They're not entirely wrong...
:sicko-lucifer:
No, didn't you read the interview? It's not superstition, it's just too hard. Are you really expecting economists to actually study economic theory? It's not like uneducated farmers in the early 1900's could study and understand it, it's really high level stuff with big words like "bourgeoisie" and "linen".