Not surprised by this video, Marx thought that reports on native Americans were a window into how Europe was before the medieval age, which could not be determined properly because of the amount of historical ideological bullshit “historians” registered. The same way that he said once that to know how the medieval age was structured it was better to look at japan, rather than read historians of the day, in this sense, they were important, nothing else. And the notion that Marx somehow had his ideas based on these reports is right down laughable, this guy is speaking as if almost everything Marx thought wasn’t the adaptation, subversion, or repurposing of the ideas other people had, the falling of the rate of profit, alienation, materialism, his value theory, dictatorship of the proletariat, communism, all rescued and then corrected from a different thinker who wrote a good thing or two and bullshited his way through the rest of his career.

Marx wasn’t a singular great man, whc by the will of his genius came up with a new way of organizing society, like this board belives, he was the culmination on an entire movement, at the crossroads of multiple branches of through, used for the interest of workers, all of which existed before, and after that bloody book.