Discuss.
Also do you think it can be related to quadra values and/or quadral complexes?
Discuss.
Also do you think it can be related to quadra values and/or quadral complexes?
Last edited by Mila; 06-17-2020 at 07:50 PM.
I mean more like, what are the motivations of the ppl who believes that marxism is the solution to economic problems.
I think as system is pretty idealistic and doesn't take into account human nature and it results in repression and tyranny. And I think it limits human rights in the most basic levels.
Last edited by Mila; 06-27-2020 at 06:06 PM.
because they're gay with aids
Not all ppl who believes in marxism or communism are from low income background. But Marx was from low income background. However some atheists believes that an utopy as marxism is possible and desirable for getting a fair and ethical distribution of resources.
Someone becomes a Marxist because they don't understand mathematics.
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I can actually say that if the inequities that a Marxist believes are caused by free markets aren't actually caused by free markets but by creating bubbles. Wealth redistribution actually causes an erosion of the middle class via Jenganomics. The more socialist policies that are put into place, the more it makes capitalism look like it's creating the inequities, when it fact it isn't. Economies are networks of good exchanges that are occurring. When money is funneled from the upper middle class and upper class to the lower class, the money isn't used to create investment, but acts as a battery to prop up big business by creating a rise in demand. This over time erodes the middle class. The lower tier use the money on goods and services and the Upper class just ends up with more money than they had to give up, which is why big business are pro-socialist policies because it actually helps them. If you want to actually get into whether Marxism in full implementation is broken, then I will say that it just creates a cascade of mal-investment. Truthfully, Marxism actually does the reverse effect of what Marx predicts. The longer the system goes on, the more freedoms are taken away to maintain the system, and eventually you will have an uprising of people wanting freedom to be able to trade goods and services in the way they want to. While I don't think that Marxism is capable of maintaining equity, even if it was the living standards of the individuals under it as a whole would go down.
Also, I haven't even gotten into how Keynesian economics fucks up the economy.
Last edited by Hitta; 06-18-2020 at 01:00 AM.
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You can believe in an economic-reductionist view of history without sharing Marx's vision. That economic reductionism is "marxist," even though many people who reject marx's vision of the future also take this lens. In the same way, you can believe Nietzsche's view of historical values having been split between master and slave, without sharing his master-moralist views, and aligning yourself with slave-morality instead. The framework describes how you believe the world to be ordered as a matter of fact, but you can still apply your own values within that framework. What most people identify as marxists are those who share marxian visions, not all economic-reductionists, which fit under the technical umbrella of "marxism" even if we wouldn't call them that.
Alternatives to economic reduction include religious-reduction like Max Weber's type, and the Great Man theory of history, which is factually wrong and shouldn't require justifying.
Ahem. From someone who sounds like a "Marxist," people from well off backgrounds are not likely to come up with ideas that work because they can only imagine class oppression. Then there are those from lower classes who make it "big" and then sell out. We humans are weak.
More serious answer. I imagine what people are calling Marxism (though that may be the wrong label) has already won. The overlords aren't coming, they are already here. The time to fight them was years ago and the only way to fight them was to do equality better. No one did.
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It's because I think all that math stuff is over my head that I'm NOT Marxist (or an adherent to any economic system), but having lived all my life under capitalism, its easier to see the flaws and have a soft spot for presented alternatives. And NOT having had exposure to other environments makes it easier to justify or overlook potential flaws. I think this explains the "why," along with more confidence about all that math stuff, lol. I don't wanna dismiss anybody's thoughts by tossing out the phrase "grass is greener," but I think that's part of understanding the motivation.
I'm not a Marxist, but I can describe some of my own motivations for being to the left of social democrats:
I believe in worker ownership for large firms — barring that, some form of worker representation or stake-ownership. I believe that this is desirable to the same extent that representative democracy is a more desirable form of government than benevolent oligarchy.
What is social democracy in a nutshell? Better regulated markets and higher taxes on the rich to fund social programs. That's nice, but social democracy remains a two-tier society with a class of leaders held accountable by shareholders rather than workers. There is a degree of social mobility, but the class of leaders is only accountable to other members of that class, and remains more-or-less hereditary.
Consider how the same logic would be received if it were applied to our political system. Would anyone seriously argue to have an unimpeachable monarch that is 'regulated' by a legal constitution? Politicians worked extremely hard to succeed — just as hard as businessmen — and continue to work hard to pass laws, yet the same argument is never used to justify giving them a permanent or semi-permanent station. There is a democratic premise that politicians can be removed by their constituents on election day; these are constituents by virtue of simply being citizens, not by virtue of being other members of the political class.
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That is not how Europeans see it tho. Kant's Categorical Imperative & his Transcendental idealism would be the pinnacle and everything since then has been one disaster after another.
you'd be hard pressed to find mainland Europeans who aren't socialist & authoritarian to some degree tho (including me). It comes with the geopolitical situation (constant invasion & war), much like how the British & Americans have a predisposition towards liberty & capitalism (partially or entirely easy to defend island nations with access to the ocean)
Its interesting to see tho how rampant capitalism always warrants a socialist backlash, even in the US.
Last edited by SGF; 06-19-2020 at 08:51 AM.
I think it partly boils down to some kind of "regressive" personality disorder. By "regressive" I mean a longing to return to childhood, with the State as the great Parent. The believer in Marxism longs to become the child of Daddy and Mommy State, the great Caretaker that makes sure that all siblings have everything they need and are treated equally.
There's also another kind of Marxist, the one who wants to dominate and rule over others and be the benevolent wise and allknowing Parent or older sibling who occasionally has to punish the children for their own good.
In either case the appeal of Marxism comes from a deep unconscious desire to return to an idealized version of childhood.
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that actually would make sense in the case of my dad, just that mb is not a desire to return to childhood but he as caregiver type thinks the best way for society is to get that idealized version of government where there's equity in the use of resources (that actually belong to that parental nation not to ppl as individuals).
@Tommy
I take it that you want the personal motivations of Marxists (or of activists on the radical left). I can give you an anecdotal answer based on the Marxists that I've read and have personally known.
They have tended to be very scholarly individual; better-educated than average, especially in fields like history. They're more likely to be sympathetic to people's suffering, even if it's at an abstract level. They're more opinionated than average, and more willing to dissent. They tend to be more excitable, and quicker to want decisive action against what they regard as unjustness or unfairness. They're more likely to have very rigid convictions about right and wrong.
That's the gist of it. Some of this description may be applicable to radicals of most kinds (Islamist, Anarchist, etc...)
Last edited by xerx; 06-19-2020 at 08:09 PM.
Because that is the push for the near future. Marxism, then communism, worldwide. Its not good and we can see it coming. It's easy to look around and see methods that can be used for this change of regime. It was foretold that without much prayer and without the consecrations of Russia by the Pope and Bishops that Russia would spread its errors throughout the world. That was foretold in Fatima in 1917 and, our infiltrated Church has never allowed that consecration to happen. So now it is easy to see that that is our future. Communism throughout the whole world. That is what the Blessed Mother foretold in Fatima, that day of the biggest miracle witnessed by the most people since the parting of the Red Sea. In the end, her Immaculate Heart will triumph - but not without some very painful times, first. Persecution and much blood of martyrs. Much loss of life.
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As the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset once said: left and right are just two of the many ways for a person to be imbecile.
There are two things: there is Marx and there is Marxism. Marx once said that he was not a Marxist himself. So we can safely conclude that Marxism, like any dogmatic stand in life, is just another way to be imbecile.
With that out of the way, perhaps there is the possibility of giving Marx some credit for some of his ideas, or perhaps for his theory at large. I, for one, am as much an admirer of Marx as I am an admirer of Friedrich Hayek. Only ignorant people with self-serving tunnel vision (which is 99% of humanity) fail to see that both have valuable insights to offer.
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I really don't get this. I'd think education would lead one to realize that nature is red in tooth and claw, that love of human life is just another prejudice, and most of nature's life cycles are one organism dominating another, not living harmoniously. Why do we have this spook that enlightened = egalitarian? What forces nature to care about our petty bullshit?
As a tangent, I agree it's silly when freeze peach is invoked to protect what's essentially boorish tribal sloganeering used to brute-force an opinion rather than actually understand it.
I think we need to turn the free speech debate towards protecting obscenities. If you defend only slurs that serve one's side's interests on the basis of free speech, then one's principle is transparent and self-serving, but once you defend the type of communication that no one would consider moral, then you've protected free speech when it's hard to do so. I don't think enough people care about that.
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Some selected works:
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mar...18th-brumaire/
The Class Struggles in France
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mar...ance/index.htm
The Civil War in France
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mar...ance/index.htm
Principles of Communism
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa...ip-of-comm.pdf
The Communist Manifesto
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx.../Manifesto.pdf
The Poverty of Philosophy
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mar...ty-philosophy/
On The Jewish Question
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mar...wish-question/
Value, Price and Profit
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mar...ofit/index.htm
Wage Labour and Capital
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mar...7/wage-labour/
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mar...nomy/index.htm
Das Kapital
https://archive.org/details/KarlMarxDasKapitalpdf
Critique of the Gotha Programme
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
Anti-Dühring
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mar...ring/index.htm
I think Isaiah Berlin's 'Karl Marx: His Life and Environment' is a good introduction to those who are new. You can find it on https://z-lib.org/
Main 'Currents of Marxism: Its Origins, Growth and Dissolution' by Leszek Kołakowski I've heard is another good one.
Marx is perhaps the most influential thinker of the 19th century, he is a modern Aristotle.
Capital alone should be mandatory reading today, it really teaches you how to think. The Hegelian influence is very apparent.
He is also perhaps one of the most misrepresented intellectuals who ever lived. The gut reaction he gives to people is really stupid.
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You should answer peoples' questions. Don't you want to raise class consciousness?
I come from a poor family, have a soft spot for underdogs and have more faith in first-world, democratic governments than powerful private entities that are under no obligation to be accountable to society as long as their bottom line is secure. Private businesses will almost always cut corners and subject their workers to the most egregious degree possible if they can get away with it and save a few dollars
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If you're an ethnic minority in the US, the federal government has pretty much been the lesser of two evils since the reconstruction era probably. It's obvious who stands to benefit the most from living in a libertarian paradise
Most anarchist and libertarian ideology is a big wank.
Come to the us and you'll see why pretty easily
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There is no such thing as an 'ethnic minority' in the US and if there are it's soon to be white people.If you're an ethnic minority in the US
I do think that because man has a religious tendency by virtue of his nature, he winds up deifying things like the state when he becomes an atheist. Consequently, he may become a Communist, Marxist, or Socialist in the absence of a true religious or spiritual tradition.
Socionically, the types that have DA Cognition and Beta values have the greatest tendency toward Marxism.
Communism, like some religion does not take into account the human nature and its psychology. The reason why any idealized society model can not work it's because we can't psycho-clone ourselves. We can't for instance control the demographic distribution of TIMs in any given society. We can't guarantee that all our offsprings will blindly accept without exception a given model of society. Absolute conformism is impossible unless we find a way to genetically control the traits and personalities of our descendants e.g. human breeding, producing '"Farm humans" , "GMO Humans".
If we can't control their destiny before their birth, then we must control their development in order to avoid "bugs" in the system. Repression and totalitarianism are a quasi unavoidable direct consequence to such regimes. And so we have propaganda, censorship and cult of the personalities (personality-centered regimes) and the ultimate price is the lost of freedoms. Not one communist Regime has avoided those patterns.
With that said, people will always find a pathway to the pursuit of happiness regardless of the regime because that's also the human nature, we adapt. Even if an Ideal/Utopian model can be appealing to some and worth the fight to see it happening, its implementation would not last very long if it's too dogmatic and/or Liberticide because human nature will always carry the ferment of revolution. As long as we'll exist , all the human nature will express itself the way it's supposed to. We can not create a socion without including all the quadras and their representatives, and the very nature of quadra progression dynamics prevents the lasting of one Quadra values over another.
Note that I don't know what I'm talking about !
Anyway, I think some become a Marxist for the same reason some becomes a Scientologist, a Darwinist, a Buddhist etc.. They are seduced by the concept and it gives them meaning and/or reason to be. Most of this stuff is met at Universities, Academic "milieu" where everyone has to have a political opinion and put into an ideological box or they are seen as dumb or something.
Last edited by godslave; 05-29-2022 at 10:21 PM. Reason: refining , reframing...
ppl like to ignore information staying oblivious to their own cognitive blanks. if u are cognitively blank u end up not processing information as u should. this is why ppl have different definitions of what a marxist is, and why they have the same definitions but think they are talking about something different.
why wouldnt u want everything to be ethical? because u are an unethical person. people who want others to suffer for them dont like marxism. people like that get born out of reality enabling them yet forcing them. u need factors adding up to be born and develop to be a certain way. ppl are evil and flawed. this is not a flaw with marxism, this is flaw with people and reality.
people want serious competition bc they are not processing more important things like love and care.
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