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In reply to the discussion: Karl Marx: 10 great quotes on his birthday [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)19. Marx was a 'reactionary'????? Hunh???? You might want
to check the definition of that term before using it so cavalierly with regard to Marx.
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130 years after he died, people are posting his ideas on an internet message board,
Zorra
May 2012
#18
On the internet you will find people posting the ideas of Stalin, Hitler, Lenin and Mao
former9thward
May 2012
#23
Well, I do think Lenin and Marx share the commonality of dialectical materialism. Lenin turned
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#79
Alright, I suppose I can accept some similarities with Lenin as far as ideology goes
Bjorn Against
May 2012
#87
Dialectical materialism and historical materialism only have one outcome, imo.
joshcryer
May 2012
#95
You do realize that he was one of the key founders of modern social science?
Bjorn Against
May 2012
#32
Your mere assertion does not make it so. But you believe whatever you want - n/t
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#81
There are no utopias in Marx. He was an analyst of capitalism, not a designer of utopias.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#35
Russia was held up by the Eastern Bloc which they occupied for decades (Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact).
joshcryer
May 2012
#111
Cuba is on the verge of political revolution, and Capriles will not cut them off.
joshcryer
May 2012
#108
Capriles, the likely next President of Venezuela, will be elected by the people.
joshcryer
May 2012
#112
"Gattungswesen" is not "human nature." Marx's view of "human nature" was fine.
joshcryer
May 2012
#93
Wow how could you find a more authoritive source than Moody Church Media Ministries!
Bjorn Against
May 2012
#90
Yeah, Christian dominionist garbage is pretty unsettling to find on a democratic chatboard.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#88
the sources you've read like fake quotes. as i already demonstrated re the "monster" quote.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#83
I find no such quote in the most complete database of Marx/Engels work that exists.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#51
marx was a terrible prognosticator (history not being a science but a humanity)
arely staircase
May 2012
#15
oh i read everything from feminist social historians to traditional military historians
arely staircase
May 2012
#54
um, because there were some preconditions....and preconditional prognostications?
HiPointDem
May 2012
#69
don't want to give you anything, just sounding you out on marx's prognostications. you sounded
HiPointDem
May 2012
#76
you claimed marx's prognostications failed. just wanted to see what you were talking about.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#80
and you asked for an example, i gave you one and asked for contrary examples and you had nothing.
arely staircase
May 2012
#98
i didn't ask for "examples", i asked: "his prognostication*s* being?" so no, it doesn't.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#106
and you never had anything but what you read in the mainstream media -- other people
HiPointDem
May 2012
#119
you made the claim. i asked you to back it up. you can't, you just have boilerplate.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#123