The deep urge of libs to deboonk Marx without ever having engaged with his material at all baffles me. Marx certainly had his poor takes (like dismissing the lumpenproletariat as reactionary, the Chinese communists provided ample proof to the contrary) but none of these fucking dullards would ever know because they are so entirely subsumed by their ideology that they never even came close to ever even consider any criticisms of it let alone read the theoretical foundations of their own ideology. None of these idiots ever read The Wealth of Nations, The Road to Serfdom or even the fucking bee parable by Mandeville but internalised it’s proposed rationale so thoroughly that they dismiss any criticism of it outright as irrational since their ideology is perceived as logic itself and void of any axiomatic framework.
To libs, reading Das Kapital is the same as reading the Necronomicon. Both drive the reader mad with ridiculous ideas and turn them into raving cultists.
The deep urge of libs to deboonk Marx without ever having engaged with his material at all baffles me. Marx certainly had his poor takes (like dismissing the lumpenproletariat as reactionary, the Chinese communists provided ample proof to the contrary) but none of these fucking dullards would ever know because they are so entirely subsumed by their ideology that they never even came close to ever even consider any criticisms of it let alone read the theoretical foundations of their own ideology. None of these idiots ever read The Wealth of Nations, The Road to Serfdom or even the fucking bee parable by Mandeville but internalised it’s proposed rationale so thoroughly that they dismiss any criticism of it outright as irrational since their ideology is perceived as logic itself and void of any axiomatic framework.
Look, Adam Smith was an ancap. Just facts.
Libs genuinely believe that exposure to anything Marx wrote will forever be branded on your forehead and make every other point you ever make moot.
They are idealists after all. They believe ideas warp reality. This is why they also never shut the fuck up.
To libs, reading Das Kapital is the same as reading the Necronomicon. Both drive the reader mad with ridiculous ideas and turn them into raving cultists.
They're not entirely wrong.
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