Marx's Twitter would be 95% squabbling with insignificant Twitter folk about issues that don't matter. Guy loved to go thermonuclear on relatively obscure people, going so far as to write multiple books jsut entirely refuting the philosophy of somebody (Poverty of Philosophy which critiqued Proudhon, The Holy Family against the young Hegelians) and then just sometimes never publishing them (The German Ideology against Max Stirner and others). Him on Twitter would be too much.
Marx is famous for petty squabbles, but Proudhon, the young Hegelians, and Stirner at least are not obscure. (Same with his other famous rivals like Bakunin.) Their debates are justifiably foundational to Marxism, socialism, and left political thought in general.
Yeah you're right, for the obscure part I'm mainly thinking of this one letter where Marx is like "I'm going to fucking destroy this guy" and Engels is like "dude what are you doing, like eight people know who this guy is don't bother." I'll see if I can find it.
You think he'd do a Crowder gig on college campuses? I'd watch Karl do "capitalism is evil, change my mind" and just decapitate economic undergrads preaching the glories of libertarianism.
You know he'd get on Twitter and then, Highlander-like, immediately sense his only true opponent for the title of "Too Online", Glenn Greenwald.
Their twitter fights would wind up destroying the auto numbering feature, as those fools at Twitter only allow up to 5 character #s for them.
Also, the first tweet would be "There can only be 1/99999"
Karl Marx is like the Eminem of the political economy world. Challenging him is suicide.
what is the answer to that? sounds like a decent refutation but im a dumbass
The answer is that labour and physical effort are not synonymous. For it to be labour it has to produce a use value. And to be paid for it, there has to be an exchange value that someone is willing to exchange payment for, so the labour just have produced something that is a use-value for someone else.
And usually you as a prole will get paid by directly selling your labour time, which is a use value for your employer. They exchange money for your labour because they know you produce more value than they will pay you.
Awesome! I'll read the fancy books one day, but til then this is very helpful!
Marx, Engels, and Lenin would have been good, but insufferable on twitter.
I feel like there must be letters or small pamphlets made by Marx that basically amount to shitposts.
Yeah, but if their laptops had gotten hacked we might have been able to see their hogs. :lenin-heart:
how many times do you have to be told to link the tweet
