Karl Marx - BBC Radio 4 In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher (Part 4 of 5)

[jaguppal187]

incredible man one of the greatest thinkers that ever lived

[RadioFreeWisconsin]

He was a brilliant man, but he was way to determinist. Human behavior can not be predicted and mapped out, humans are too complex.

[natedaug1]

@RadioFreeWisconsin Yeah, I agree. The world is indeterminate. The future is unpredictable. I think this is where Marx messed up. I recently read a book called the "Black Swan," basically saying how the future is unpredictable and their is much randomness in our world, or what appears to be randomness to us. We are too limited in our epistemic understanding of the world to be able to map the world out, like Marx tried to.

[theabomation]

Karl Marx was an genius but he failed to foresee the ability of the elite to mask information and suppress upraising

[arzoyan]

Capitalism,the prison planet of the wage slavery of immense humanity in a politically manipulated and armed reality of a minority imposition. A SYSTEM OF ACCUMULATION AND CONCENTRATION OF POWER AND CONTROL AND INCREASING MISERY FOR HUMANITY .We need to reclaim our freedom for a world of cooperation for our collective needs and well being. A community of humanity where money,class and state are abolished and our energies and resources are not limited by Market of artificial limits and scarcity.

[Twinroads]

Caps lock does not make it true.

[djsmurfie]

@arzoyan He says whilst typing on his computer and surfing the net - the irony is too funny to be ignored :)

[superslashme]

When people talk about Marx, they often speak from pre-conceptions about communism.

I am not a Marxist. And prior to my encounter with Marxism I spoke with ignorance. Post Marx, I am a more enlightened individual. The essence of Marx for me is not about the economic struggle of the working class. It is not merely about a criticism of Capitalism. It is about empowerment and the reclamation of my Humanness. It is about being aware once and for all of the environment which folds into my being.

[arzoyan]

World Socialism a system of society based on cooperation for our collective needs and well being where state,class,wage slavery are abolished and human energies are free from the imposition of commodity production for profit in a politically manipulated market mechanism. The minority impositon of war,poverty,exploitation,envio­rnmental destructions,animal cruelty of industrial proportion will be no more and humanity can live in true harmony and solidarity.

[Mayer200]

The first dictatorship of the proleteriat wasn't in 1917, but in 1871. The Paris Commune although led by petit bourgois socialists, was the first proletarian victory where power was in the hands of the working class for 72 days before it was crushed by a bloodthirsty massacre described by Marx brilliantly in the Civil war in France.

[fefe74e]

Communism would transform the world in to a new dark ages. KARL MARX WAS WRONG.

[Roadmincer]

That is so weird that you commented that, I was just thinking what would be the replacement of economic motivation in a post-capitalist society and mind automatically seemed to think 'ecology', lol.

Cool, gna check that book out, :)