Permanently Deleted
can’t believe I ever defended this fool
this is Jordan Peterson level shit
Jacobin even fucking called him out a while back saying you should be Marxist.
Jacobin’s been pretty good at having a wide variety of different Marxist authors come and write articles, they have their heads on right with that at least. At least a few of their editors have also read a lot of Marx too as far as I can tell, enough to off the cuff reference things in livestreams.
Yeah, Bhaskar Sunkara may be a SocDem, but he at least occasionaly allows actual Marxists to publish on his site.
Please, I’m begging you NJR, read Capital.
There are entire chapters dedicated to describing the impoverished living conditions of people in 19th century industrialised Britain.
Even when Marx discusses the economics of the matter, he likening the capitalists to tanners and vampires, and capital to zombies. He hardly goes a page without injecting moral judgement.
Dude’s also just gonna pretend that Marx didn’t write a fucking moral critique like his precursors before he wrote capital lmao. It entirely makes up his early writing and is pretty fucking present throughout the whole thing.
I also don’t understand why he’s just gonna pretend psychoanalysis never happened. Questions like ‘why do people often fight for their own oppression’ seems like a good place to start.
Like this guy is just gonna do a speedrun of the last 400 years. “People don’t listen to my poetic ‘capitalism bad’ proselytizing, so here’s a mechanical critique. What’s that? The proletariat, despite it’s possible dominance over the bourgeoisie, still toil in oppressive and menial labor? Huh, well why do people invest in systems that don’t benefit them? Okay, here’s my critique of ideology.”
This is why nobody trusts fancylads.
This is hilariously wrong. Literally all of Marx’s writing is steeped in a language of justice and democracy. Marx just avoids explicitly making a moralism argument because that’s his one of his problems with utopian socialists. If anyone wants a good recent work on the democratic theory in Capital Volume I, the book-club on the discord and !books@hexbear.net is doing Marx’s Inferno this month. Marx is working in a deeply democratic tradition, a deeply moral one too, and those are exemplified and raised by the material backing he gives them in Capital and his other works. Capital is literally a work on the social hell that is capitalism, I mean jfc, this is just embarrassing for Robinson. And Marx constantly stressed that things were not inevitable, and warned against the determinism some later Marxists would engage in.
