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Karl Marx was a fucking idiot!

5/12/2014

Editor: Crass Cash

It should go without saying that Karl Marx was a dumbass. In case this isn't easily apparent by his massively wrong philosophies on economics, just read the quote above.

It should also be noted that Marx (the father of modern communism) was also notoriously bad with his personal finances. It's no wonder that he wanted the state to take care of his personal needs. He also would have been a really shitty businessman. What's wrong with that quote above in regards to a business opportunity?

Well how about the business model of teaching somebody how to fish?? Hello! Self enrichement education is a huge business! Not only that, but just because some people want to learn to fish for themselves, many people are far too busy to do it themselves, so the idea that everybody is just going to quit their day job and go fishing is fucking stupid! There were so many flaws in his economic philosophy that it doesn't surprise me that he believes this.

This leads to another point. Be careful who you pick to mentor you in certain subjects. Don't take nutrition advice from a fat person and don't take business advice from a financial derelict like capt communism here.

Trevor

17/5/2016 03:53:12 am

There is a way to have an intellectual argument against Marxism. Seen it done, but what's sad to see is a million people talking about his personal life... Then never attacking his theories haha can you get nutrition advice from a fat person? Yes. If the advice is scientifically sound, their fatness has nothing to do with it. Make an argument.

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shaline

7/2/2020 11:23:36 pm

I have never been more proud and happy about a comment before. You are a very well educated gentle man. We need more one's like you.

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Jay

23/11/2021 01:28:17 pm

His theories don't need to be attacked. They have proven themselves invalid. It's been tried so many times and it simply destroys a nation. So quickly, in fact, that people like you claim it has never fully been tried. Have fun following the laziest philosopher to ever walk. Oh, he was also insanely racist and supported the genocide of the Jewish people. Want to talk about oppression from the bourgeoisie? How about literal genocide. You people sound like somebody gave a 6 year old a thesaurus and let them throw a temper tantrum. You also clearly don't understand how the economy works if you want to talk about his theories being valid. He had a few applicable ideas and probably a smart guy, but total Marxism is inevitable downfall of a nation.

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Shubham Nishad link

18/5/2016 06:53:15 am

Yes I too think that he was a fucking idiot.

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Marx hater

12/8/2016 05:11:52 pm

There's no argue for Carl Marx and his ideology which helped turn a tyranny or a dictator into a well loved Communist leader. If I can dig his body up and beat it into pieces to revenge for those who were tortured and killed, and still are suffering under the iron claws of the Communist, I would. The bastard has no right to RIP. He must be passed out while drinking with Mussilini and Hitler or Lenin, Stalin, Mao in somewhere in hell right now.

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karlmarxsux

4/4/2017 03:46:10 am

Great article.Good for you.Marx like Bernie,Billy bob Clinton and Obama never worked a real job in their lives.They could not problem solve themselves out of an episode of Sesame St .Is it not fitting that they all subscribe to stealing someone else's money ?

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E link

28/1/2020 01:55:26 pm

What you said is just factually wrong; Bernie has worked tons of blue collar jobs including carpentry and installing carpeting, and white collar jobs working as a researcher, journalist, author, director, and TV producer. I disagree with Marx on many things but the OP was a dumb ass with his selection of a quote from Marx that he clearly didn't understand. The quote was obviously rhetoric poking fun at the downfalls of capitalism; pure profit seeking gives the incentive not to teach the man to fish, because then he will not purchase the fish. Adam Smith, the man behind modern capitalism said that capitalism needs morals such as Christianity behind it to regulate those types of downfalls. If large corporations displacing jobs refuse to operate in moral ways, then another institution like the government must regulate them.

J

15/8/2020 04:31:28 am

Sorry E, burn never worked any real job... Don't know where you got that but it's patently false...

Phillip

2/2/2017 12:44:35 am

Marx was very close to being correct in his theories, and fell very far. He touched on the fact that most highly successful businesses do so because they are protected by the State, however he did not actually give the reason why. These businesses do so as a result of anti-competitive lawmaking and regulations that they lobby for. In economics, this is referred to as Corporatism or Crony Capitalism.
However, Marx, either dishonestly or ignorantly excluded this from his claims and instead proposed a notion that is contrary to reality. He proposed that private property in and of itself was a "monopoly on resources" backed by force, which is correct, as without force, there is no incentive not to simply take every resource you come across, e.g. food that someone else has cultivated for survival. His solution to this "monopoly" was for people to violently revolt, that is, simply use force to destroy the "monopoly" the property using mob rule or a "vanguard of the proletariat" who would according to him then equally access those resources for themselves.
Of course, when the logical consequences of his flawed claims was brought to light, he then performed a cop-out and said that human nature itself would then have to change, citing human evolution to our environment as a way for the "new man" to emerge in a socialistic society. This "new man" would not associate other humans as family, would not believe in deities or adhere to dogma and would live communally with ALL humans. This of course runs contrary to how human nature has actually evolved.
In reality, humanity has been forced to adapt to the world around us and the laws of the universe. One law, known as entropy, refers to the perpetual degradation of all energy. As a result, resources are finite and will eventually cease to exist. Life wants to reproduce for reasons unknown and as multiple lifeforms use the same resource(s), that access will become narrower and narrower until eventually it too ceases to exist. This is referred to as Tragedy of the Commons. Ultimately, the appropriation and "monopoly" of resources into property is a natural preventative measure stemming from this that has been bred into all complex lifeforms since our inception.
Marx's system, whenever realistically tried on a societal scale, ultimately self-corrupts, see the Soviet Union, Maoist China, Pol Pot's Cambodia, and Castro's Cuba to name a few. They always change into authoritarian societies that use State force to maintain a collectivist system more resembling extremely regulated capitalism, and benefit those in bed with the State at the expense of the greater populace, which, ironically, was the occurrence that gave Marx his audience.

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Anonymous

5/2/2017 09:00:03 am

Good observations. I always found it funny that Marx thought that the USA would be the best place for communism to flourish. He even wanted to move to Texas prior to his death. What may end up being ironic is the path and not the result. He foresaw a utopian society where machines and robots did everything with just human oversight. We're headed this way, but it's happening through free will of capitalism not the force of communism. The rise or robots could very well usher in the age of a universal income for all along with a host of 'basic rights' like food, housing, and health care. Then he envisioned a world where humans would be totally free to cultivate their lives with music, art, and philosophy.

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Phillip

6/2/2017 03:25:01 am

What a beautiful future that would be, where we simply act as overseers to laboring machines and exist with our own personal paradises. I only fear that this progress would be deliberately slowed down by the corporatist oligarchs of the world for the sole purpose of retaining the mega profits they're used to until they themselves reach the state of autonomy they're comfortable with, then say "fuck the rest of you, we've got ours!"

E link

28/1/2020 02:08:26 pm

The tragedy of the commons was a theory that stopped being backed up by the evidence as societies progressed; the proportion of deaths from warfare and famine decreased, and people lived longer lives with compression of morbidity, as technology, efficiency, and production outpaced population growth. Also, in developed countries, birthrates always balance out at replacement rate and then fall below; the stage after that is unknown. The number of resources available to us and the rate at which we are able to harness them far outpaces the growth of our using them. We don't have to even consider the loss of available resources to entropy for hundreds of millions or billions of years.

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Skid Marx

18/8/2017 05:22:15 pm

A highly overrated 19th century German bum.

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Stalin

29/4/2019 11:22:44 am

но я единственный, кто будет жить дальше, и я заберу всю твою жизнь, ты, блядь, дерьмовый буржуа!

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Sal

25/8/2021 06:18:06 am

Marx was an imbecil. Just check the countries and people who put into practice his ideas. They all ended up killing milions and making them slaves and poor. If that is not prove he was wrong, then I do not know what will. There is not one single country or society that tried his ideas that prospered. On the contrary, they all got poorer. Yes, he was an imbecil that died poor not becasue he gave up his money for the poor, but because he was an idiot who destroyed everything he touched.

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Reason

9/10/2023 10:56:16 am

The basis of your criticism is so wrong that i dont even know how to start this.

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