Happy B-Day Karl Marx, We Could have done without the Genocides however

[basquebromance]

'If ever there were a convincing case to be made for the dangers of philosophy, then surely it’s Marx’s discovery of Hegel, whose “grotesque craggy melody” repelled him at first but which soon had him dancing deliriously through the streets of Berlin. As Marx confessed to his father in an equally delirious letter in November 1837, “I wanted to embrace every person standing on the street-corner.”

Marx’s basic thesis — that capitalism is driven by a deeply divisive class struggle in which the ruling-class minority appropriates the surplus labor of the working-class majority as profit — is correct. Even liberal economists such as Nouriel Roubini agree that Marx’s conviction that capitalism has an inbuilt tendency to destroy itself remains as prescient as ever.' - NYT

 

[JimBowie1958]

Marx’s basic thesis — that capitalism is driven by a deeply divisive class struggle in which the ruling-class minority appropriates the surplus labor of the working-class majority as profit — is correct. Even liberal economists such as Nouriel Roubini agree that Marx’s conviction that capitalism has an inbuilt tendency to destroy itself remains as prescient as ever.' - NYT

The New York Times still thinks that Stalin was right and shows off the Pulitzers they got for lying to protect Stalin here in the USA.

 

[basquebromance]

In honor of Karl Marx's 200th birthday, I stubbed my toe this morning and blamed it on cultural Marxism.

 

[2aguy]

Marxist are always slamming on religion for their deaths even remotely connected to it while the Marxist atheists have slaughtered hundreds of millions of people in the last century.

But then legendary stupidity and ignorance can let one get away with a lot f things like that.

http://nationalpost.com/news/world/...cial&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1525350865

Marx may well have had some prescient critiques about capitalism, but in the words of author Andrew McAfee “there are so many thinkers about economics and technology who haven’t inspired mass murder and inhuman states.” The Black Book of Communism, published by European scholars in 1997, estimates that Communist governments killed 94 million people in the 20th century.

There are no explicit calls for mass murder in Marx’s writings, but he was very enthusiastic about all the ingredients that made such atrocities possible. It was Marx who endorsed a “dictatorship of the proletariat” to remake society using “despotic inroads” if necessary. It was Marx who sought to tear down any existing power structures that could check the rise of a revolutionary tyrant.

And it was Marx who taught that there were no such thing as “excesses” in a revolution, and that “hated individuals” should be sacrificed to “popular revenge.” It shouldn’t be all that surprising that so many of Marx’s followers interpreted his writings as a blank cheque on killing.

Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin once told the writer Maxim Gorky that while be loved Beethoven, he could not listen to music too often, since it baffled him to hear beauty created by people who did not realize they lived in “a filthy hell.” “They ought to be beaten on the head, beaten mercilessly, although ideally we are against doing any violence to people,” Lenin added.​

Actually, it wasn't genocide...that would imply murdering people based on ethnicity or national origin........the followers of Marx murdered anyone they didn't like if they thought they were class enemies.......I think that would just be considered mass murder....

 

[Moonglow]

Marxist are always slamming on religion for their deaths even remotely connected to it while the Marxist atheists have slaughtered hundreds of millions of people in the last century.

But then legendary stupidity and ignorance can let one get away with a lot f things like that.

http://nationalpost.com/news/world/...cial&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1525350865

Marx may well have had some prescient critiques about capitalism, but in the words of author Andrew McAfee “there are so many thinkers about economics and technology who haven’t inspired mass murder and inhuman states.” The Black Book of Communism, published by European scholars in 1997, estimates that Communist governments killed 94 million people in the 20th century.

There are no explicit calls for mass murder in Marx’s writings, but he was very enthusiastic about all the ingredients that made such atrocities possible. It was Marx who endorsed a “dictatorship of the proletariat” to remake society using “despotic inroads” if necessary. It was Marx who sought to tear down any existing power structures that could check the rise of a revolutionary tyrant.

And it was Marx who taught that there were no such thing as “excesses” in a revolution, and that “hated individuals” should be sacrificed to “popular revenge.” It shouldn’t be all that surprising that so many of Marx’s followers interpreted his writings as a blank cheque on killing.

Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin once told the writer Maxim Gorky that while be loved Beethoven, he could not listen to music too often, since it baffled him to hear beauty created by people who did not realize they lived in “a filthy hell.” “They ought to be beaten on the head, beaten mercilessly, although ideally we are against doing any violence to people,” Lenin added.​

Actually, it wasn't genocide...that would imply murdering people based on ethnicity or national origin........the followers of Marx murdered anyone they didn't like if they thought they were class enemies.......I think that would just be considered mass murder....

The God of the Old Testament in the Bible was into genocide and mass murder.

 

[basquebromance]

Karl Marx would be 200 years old today. But he’s not. Cause he’s dead. Like the millions of others that died from the implementation of his ideas. Let’s let Marxism die with Marx once and for all.

 

[HenryBHough]

Workers at Britain's Highgate Cemetery HATE Marx' birthday despite their being socialist Labour leaning trogs.

They hate having to clean up after all the ass-kissing liberals which flock to the cemetery to suck up to their dead hero. Tougher, too, when they have to clean off skin frozen to the ass of the bust of the oh-so-cold brass statue. Good reason to root for a cold start to each May!

 

[georgephillip]

Hundreds of millions have starved in every communist system DELIBERATELY by policies of their governments, while Capitalism has reduced starvation everywhere it has been introduced.

What do you know about the Irish potato famine?

"EarthRx: The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus"
EarthRx: The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus

Capitalism is a malignancy.
Socialism's the cure.

 

[Theowl32]

Aaand the left who of course deny they are marxists do not agree with the OP and they defend marxism. Of course they have their old go to....BUT BUT BUT AMERICA!!!!!

Meanwhile their utopia, better known as the USSR could not last 100 years with their fucked up devilish philosophy, and for some strange unknown reason poor people from all over the socialist world are DESPERATELY trying to get here.

The left wing are such pathetic losers. Especially, the left wing RICH hypocritical white socialists. Dumb fucking scumbags.

 

[Tom Horn]

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Hear Pelosi had a cake with candles

She's damn near as old as ol Karl....

 

[Political Junky]

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Hear Pelosi had a cake with candles

She's damn near as old as ol Karl....

What would cons do without Photoshop? Their prepubescent minds think it's funny.

 

[Moonglow]

Yes, George, without Capitalism these millions would have starved the old fashion way, but it is due to the efficiency of capitalist markets that instead of starving to death as they would have in pre-modern times, the Third Worlds population is exploding.

That outside forces obstruct the efficiency of capitalism is not the fault of capitalism that many still starve.

Now go ahead and put another laughing icon on this post too sense you obviously do not grasp the concepts I am sharing with you, lame ass.

Millions across the Middle East and Africa are starving today because of capitalism; it's alleged efficiency is limited to concentrating more and more wealth into fewer and fewer hands with each passing generation by socializing cost and privatizing profit:

Criticism of capitalism - Wikipedia

"Some opponents criticize capitalism's perceived inefficiency.

"They note a shift from pre-industrial reuse and thriftiness before capitalism to a consumer-based economy that pushes 'ready-made' materials.[31]

"It is argued that a sanitation industry arose under capitalism that deemed trash valueless—a significant break from the past when much 'waste' was used and reused almost indefinitely.[31]

"In the process, critics say, capitalism has created a profit driven system based on selling as many products as possible.[32]

"Critics relate the 'ready-made' trend to a growing garbage problem in which 4.5 pounds of trash are generated per person each day (compared to 2.7 pounds in 1960).[33]"

That is simply some ideologues opinion.

Hundreds of millions have starved in every communist system DELIBERATELY by policies of their governments, while Capitalism has reduced starvation everywhere it has been introduced.

In short you are an ideological moron, lol.

Dust Bowl era was damn close though.

 

[georgephillip]

Yes, George, without Capitalism these millions would have starved the old fashion way, but it is due to the efficiency of capitalist markets that instead of starving to death as they would have in pre-modern times, the Third Worlds population is exploding.

That outside forces obstruct the efficiency of capitalism is not the fault of capitalism that many still starve.

Now go ahead and put another laughing icon on this post too sense you obviously do not grasp the concepts I am sharing with you, lame ass.

Millions across the Middle East and Africa are starving today because of capitalism; it's alleged efficiency is limited to concentrating more and more wealth into fewer and fewer hands with each passing generation by socializing cost and privatizing profit:

Criticism of capitalism - Wikipedia

"Some opponents criticize capitalism's perceived inefficiency.

"They note a shift from pre-industrial reuse and thriftiness before capitalism to a consumer-based economy that pushes 'ready-made' materials.[31]

"It is argued that a sanitation industry arose under capitalism that deemed trash valueless—a significant break from the past when much 'waste' was used and reused almost indefinitely.[31]

"In the process, critics say, capitalism has created a profit driven system based on selling as many products as possible.[32]

"Critics relate the 'ready-made' trend to a growing garbage problem in which 4.5 pounds of trash are generated per person each day (compared to 2.7 pounds in 1960).[33]"

That is simply some ideologues opinion.

Hundreds of millions have starved in every communist system DELIBERATELY by policies of their governments, while Capitalism has reduced starvation everywhere it has been introduced.

In short you are an ideological moron, lol.

Dust Bowl era was damn close though.

Land speculators and Wall Street found ways to profit from the Dust Bowl, too.

“Creating Wealth” Through Debt: the West’s Finance-Capitalist Road

"Volumes II and III of Marx’s Capital describe how debt grows exponentially, burdening the economy with carrying charges.

"This overhead is subjecting today’s Western finance-capitalist economies to austerity, shrinking living standards and capital investment while increasing their cost of living and doing business.

"That is the main reason why they are losing their export markets and becoming de-industrialized."

Marx saw finance capitalism as "fictitious capital", and he recognized its threat to workers and productive capitalists alike.

 

[Bush92]

Aaand the left who of course deny they are marxists do not agree with the OP and they defend marxism. Of course they have their old go to....BUT BUT BUT AMERICA!!!!!

Meanwhile their utopia, better known as the USSR could not last 100 years with their fucked up devilish philosophy, and for some strange unknown reason poor people from all over the socialist world are DESPERATELY trying to get here.

The left wing are such pathetic losers. Especially, the left wing RICH hypocritical white socialists. Dumb fucking scumbags.

Marxist philosophy was a failure because he could not see capitalist societies adjusting and becoming mixed economies with elements of socialism within them. Such as Social Security in United States. Neo-Left are just straight communists. This includes Bernie Sanders, college professoriate, and Congressional Black Caucus.

 

[Bush92]

Yes, George, without Capitalism these millions would have starved the old fashion way, but it is due to the efficiency of capitalist markets that instead of starving to death as they would have in pre-modern times, the Third Worlds population is exploding.

That outside forces obstruct the efficiency of capitalism is not the fault of capitalism that many still starve.

Now go ahead and put another laughing icon on this post too sense you obviously do not grasp the concepts I am sharing with you, lame ass.

Millions across the Middle East and Africa are starving today because of capitalism; it's alleged efficiency is limited to concentrating more and more wealth into fewer and fewer hands with each passing generation by socializing cost and privatizing profit:

Criticism of capitalism - Wikipedia

"Some opponents criticize capitalism's perceived inefficiency.

"They note a shift from pre-industrial reuse and thriftiness before capitalism to a consumer-based economy that pushes 'ready-made' materials.[31]

"It is argued that a sanitation industry arose under capitalism that deemed trash valueless—a significant break from the past when much 'waste' was used and reused almost indefinitely.[31]

"In the process, critics say, capitalism has created a profit driven system based on selling as many products as possible.[32]

"Critics relate the 'ready-made' trend to a growing garbage problem in which 4.5 pounds of trash are generated per person each day (compared to 2.7 pounds in 1960).[33]"

That is simply some ideologues opinion.

Hundreds of millions have starved in every communist system DELIBERATELY by policies of their governments, while Capitalism has reduced starvation everywhere it has been introduced.

In short you are an ideological moron, lol.

Dust Bowl era was damn close though.

Land speculators and Wall Street found ways to profit from the Dust Bowl, too.

“Creating Wealth” Through Debt: the West’s Finance-Capitalist Road

"Volumes II and III of Marx’s Capital describe how debt grows exponentially, burdening the economy with carrying charges.

"This overhead is subjecting today’s Western finance-capitalist economies to austerity, shrinking living standards and capital investment while increasing their cost of living and doing business.

"That is the main reason why they are losing their export markets and becoming de-industrialized."

Marx saw finance capitalism as "fictitious capital", and he recognized its threat to workers and productive capitalists alike.

Communism is doomed to failure. Equation does not work Der Komissar.

 

[Bush92]

Hundreds of millions have starved in every communist system DELIBERATELY by policies of their governments, while Capitalism has reduced starvation everywhere it has been introduced.

What do you know about the Irish potato famine?

"EarthRx: The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus"
EarthRx: The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus

Capitalism is a malignancy.
Socialism's the cure.

Yep, Pol Pot was the cure for Cambodia.

 

[Bush92]

Hundreds of millions have starved in every communist system DELIBERATELY by policies of their governments, while Capitalism has reduced starvation everywhere it has been introduced.

What do you know about the Irish potato famine?

"EarthRx: The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus"
EarthRx: The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus

Capitalism is a malignancy.
Socialism's the cure.

So you post your Marxist-Socialist-Anarchist diatribe from a computer and an internet that was created from capitalist free-market. Real good. If communism ran the world we would all be enslaved like Winston Smith in Orwell’s 1984.

 

[Bush92]

'If ever there were a convincing case to be made for the dangers of philosophy, then surely it’s Marx’s discovery of Hegel, whose “grotesque craggy melody” repelled him at first but which soon had him dancing deliriously through the streets of Berlin. As Marx confessed to his father in an equally delirious letter in November 1837, “I wanted to embrace every person standing on the street-corner.”

Marx’s basic thesis — that capitalism is driven by a deeply divisive class struggle in which the ruling-class minority appropriates the surplus labor of the working-class majority as profit — is correct. Even liberal economists such as Nouriel Roubini agree that Marx’s conviction that capitalism has an inbuilt tendency to destroy itself remains as prescient as ever.' - NYT

NYT shows it’s true colors.

 

[basquebromance]

"the collapse of the bourgoisie and the rise of the proleteriats is inevitable" - Marx, The Communist Manifesto

oops!

 

[Meathead]

Karl Marx never killed anyone.

Yet Marxism killed millions and enslaved billions.