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  • Is that Rasputin sitting in the background?

  • this is the most valuable clip i have ever seen in youtube.

  • Mr. Clown maybe does not understand that bringing in Hegel opens up a whole new can of worms--dialectically. For example, the antiquation of Marxism is itself explanable in Hegelian terms.

    & Listen to the way he talks about armed struggle! He wouldn't be there even if he WERE there.

    Maybe he missed his history lesson on Marxism's [synthetic?] transformation which started in 1956, a transformation which seriously problematized the dialectical approach as both licentious and inhuman...

  • "...the subjective conditions are evaluated objectively so that we can change..."

    Isn't that historical materialism? Are dialectical materialism and historical materialism interchangeable terms?

  • it's not just class struggle. it's about domination in all spheres of life. this guy needs to read murray bookchin.

  • as well as the frankfurt school.

  • another thing that was missing was the term proletariat! holy crap. do you need a thesaurus? jesus, i mean i suppose if I used the term middle class, or rich folks instead of bourgeois it would piss you off.

  • " a relective dialectic in which the subjective conditions are evaluated objectively so we can change the state" blablabla. speak english man!

  • WTF is "dialectic" supposed to mean? What a tool

  • Dialectics isn't as complicated as it's made out to be. It's the unity of opposites, sort of like yin & yang, but with a focus on the way everything is in motion and transformation. Google "dialectics for kids" for more help (you want the first result, it's a pink page).

  • Yeah, great. Now tell me what the hell it's supposed to mean in this (or any) context.

    That's what I thought.

    Empty rhetoric doesn't become less empty when you write 5000 words about it.

  • Yuck, the first guy to ask a "question" is really annoying and dogmatic.

  • @Irtidad I didnt like the way he came off confrontational but he is right in a few ways. I've come to realize in my time studying Marxist and Anarchist literature, with my own opinions being greatly influenced by both that the answer lies with the continuity of the state until such time that more and more functionality can be handled "horizontally" as the speakers would say. It would never really disappear as many seem to think, but it would slowly be stripped of purpose. Not to a collapse tho

  • sorry to burst your marx bubbles

  • I'd bet dollars to doughnuts you've never read Capital much less have an informed critique of Marxism. Whether you want to admit or not, Marx was a genius and his legacy outshines that of anyone that will ever crawl out of the Mises institute or some Ayn Rand think tank. Hell he's probably more relevant today than ever. Kid yourself that he "fails" but try reading him first.

  • and I will bet you have never even read Konkin's critique of Marxism or anyone else's.

    Marx is the source of so much political nonsense and economic fallacy that the world would be far better off if he had never lived.

  • Who is Konkin, and why should we care?

  • @necronomicjustice

    unlike you I am not concerned with appeals to authority so much as the merits of the writing, ideas, or critique. So suck a dick.

  • @thorsmitersaw It doesnt fail, the only way you could saw that it has shortcomings is with the eventual "withering of the state". You could argue Marx means the State COMPLETELY disappears or that its function as an instrument of class oppression does. I think the latter is more accurate, Marx didn't glamorize the "primitive communism" of the aboriginals and peoples of pre-history like many do today, so theres no reason to assume he would advocate an over-simplification of abstract interactions

  • Great, great uploads, man. Where and when was this?

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