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It’s amazing how controversial Marx is 150 years later, and I’ve only ever met one actual “authority” on the matter outside Marx’s actual writings. (And I’m in
by weirdstuff 7y ago
It’s amazing how controversial Marx is 150 years later, and I’ve only ever met one actual “authority” on the matter outside Marx’s actual writings. (And I’m in economics!)
Makes me think there’s something very lasting about his ideas, moral interpretations aside.
- cheaprentalyeti 7y agoIt's a very compelling religion of the modern age. That doesn't mean it can't be wrong.
- Sag0Sag0 7y agoGlad you have so much faith it is wrong! Stone the infidel! Capitalism is the one true faith!
- dang 7y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
- wait-a-minute 7y agoIt's almost as if it hasn't even been 50 years since people were last dying because of the evil extremist ideologies from the 1900s! Tens of millions dead in the last hundred years.
- Sag0Sag0 7y agoGlad your such a critic of US foreign policy. Didn't expect to meet someone like you on Hacker News.
- Gibbon1 7y agoI think that Marx's observations about the exploitative power structures and inherent problems with naked capitalism weren't wrong and they haven't been solved either. It's fairly easy to sense problems. Harder to identify and analyze the nature of a problem. Yet harder to come up with practical solutions that aren't worse.