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Regardless of politics, it’s the funniest shit when people say “Marx meant..”, or “What Marx failed to understand…”
The true Marx understanders are some of my favorite replyguys
endlessly entertaining when a group of people who assume themselves to be the Bestest Most Intelligent Politics And Geopolitics Understanders And The Adults In The Room run headfirst into a brick wall (literally reading a single page of a book ever in their entire lives, including the books of the people who they claim to be their patron saints, like Adam Smith)
I cannot stress enough that the average redditor has literally no idea what they are talking about. Drill them about literally ANYTHING and within 30 seconds, they find themselves unable to describe or explain anything, because they don't know anything beyond the facts and ideas that they've been given by other commenters who are just as moronic. 100% vibes-based. They might as well be ants following pheromone trails, except the pheromone trails are US state propaganda. Their desire to learn and retain new information about the world at large was extinguished halfway through middle school when they saw their first "but what if the curtains are just blue??!?" meme.
And zero of them have read Capital
No dawg someone read the first 20 pages and that's literally all you need to know. The rest of Capital is actually just a really long aristocrats joke.
Interestingly enough the first 20 pages is the hardest part to understand and even Marx himself was troubled by it and revised it many times before publishing.
Ngl the first 20 (well maybe more like the first 100) pagws were the most interesting to me, but then it kinda became a big snooze imo.