Would academia be better off without Marxism?

[Montegriffo]

+1

See Democrat 7 hour doomsday global warming marathon earlier in the week.

''Chinese hoax'' is a much easier soundbite to sell to the gullible.
Fits nicely on a bumper sticker.
The truth be damned.

[clubgop]

+1

See Democrat 7 hour doomsday global warming marathon earlier in the week.

''Chinese hoax'' is a much easier soundbite to sell to the gullible.
Fits nicely on a bumper sticker.
The truth be damned.

See this is unadulterated hack bitch shit. All while pretending to be moderate you act all snobby while unquestionably spiral into the chicken little malthusian death cult. That's not moderate, that is dishonest hack bitch shit. You are a dishonest hack bitch.

[TheReal_ND]

Tru. I'm worried for people like him shilling for free. At least Greta Thunberg isn't telling me what to shill. Talk about a marketing tactic that should have been aborted.

[clubgop]

Talk about a marketing tactic that should have been aborted.

Dude! Saying Monty's mom realized he should have been aborted is like really mean. It's true, but it is still mean.

[BjornP]

I had to learn Marxist economics in college, not just the philosophy. There are some interesting ways of looking at things. The one that always stood out to me was how, to analyze any economic system, they look at who keeps the surplus. That's the power elite.

Their theory of value was batshit. Something's value is not determined by how much work one puts into producing it.

To Marx, everything boils down to materialism and thus all the solutions boil down to economic ones, because they supposedly inform what the solutions to everything else is. I'd only agree to a basic premise that people who are starving, people who are economically desperate, are not going to be able to spend much of their time educating themselves about their society (simply because they have to spend so much of their time either working, or otherwise stressing about making ends meet). But at the same time, Marx romanticizes the proletariat in much the same way that the elites of his time romanticized the capitalist class. His "worker alienation" and the linear understanding of history is what I can't understand supposedly intelligent people falling for.

At the History department where I studied, and this is taught everywhere at Danish universities I'd imagine, we had something called "Historical theory", which was a year-long class about the history of history as a disclipine and the various approaches to history as a discipline from Aristotle all the way to the various modern approaches to history. Marx's "historical materialism" was taught as one of the linear ways of understanding history as something with a "beginning of history" and an final "goal" of history, where it would "inevitably" end up. My memory's fuzzy on who came up with that way of thinking in regards to history, it's fairly modern, and I remember Marx being influenced by Hegel, and that the later (original, not the current) eugenics movement also championed that linear way of understanding history (with themselves being the ones who "pushed history in the right direction"). Our professor of Historical Theory couldn't stand the linear way of understanding history.

[Hastur]

Linear history starts with the bible. Blame the Jews.