Marx revisited: The enslavement of the individual by Materialism | 29 comments (29 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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May be some people are too critical to Marx ideas, because communism failed. I personally recognize him as a genious who has outgrown his time and may be even ours. "Das Kapital" is so fine analysis of the capitalistic process that many scholars put Marx in top 5 of all economists ever.

I'm not ugly,but my beauty is a total creation.Hegel

by Chris on Tue Apr 4th, 2006 at 04:59:24 PM EST
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Marx was wrong about the solution, because he was an idealist and utopian and not a social realist. He also didn't understand how easy it is for leaders to subvert a Grand Narrative for personal ends.

But he was luminously right in his description of the problem. From a distance of a century and a half, that's not a bad achievement.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Apr 5th, 2006 at 07:55:53 AM EST
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Marx revisited: The enslavement of the individual by Materialism | 29 comments (29 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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