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In reply to the discussion: Karl Marx: 10 great quotes on his birthday [View all]arely staircase
(12,482 posts)i read a lot of history, lot's of it by academics coming from marxist and often feminist social history schools. I'm also an armchair fan of cultural anthropology and sociology - like Durkheim, Foucault and the like. I read Gramsci. All of these academics have intellectual roots in Marxist theory - Gramsci , of course, a straight up Marxist.
Very solid academic work owes a lot to Marxist thought. I am not bashing Marx or marxists academics.
I have already stated that marx's critique of capitalism is still the best there is (making him a great diagnostician.) Specifically i believe his analysis of the surplus value of labor is the nail on which his brilliant diagnosis of capitalism rests, imho.
His belief that history in predictable and innevitable just doesn't hold water with me - and the innevitability of capitalism's demise, the reason for it and then the communal ownership of the means of production, is the most glaring.
But hey, all of my opinion is based on what I heave read, studied and pondered with an open mind over the years. Im no marxist scholar. So, enlighten me to some of Marx's predictions that did
occur. I'm guessing you probably do know more than I on the subject(no sarcasm).