On May 5th, 1818, Karl Marx, hero of the international proletatiat, was born. His revolution of Socialist theory reverberates throughout the world carries on to this day, in increasing magnitude. Every passing day, he is vindicated. His analysis of Capitalism, development of the theory of Scientific Socialism, and advancements on dialectics to become Dialectical Materialism, have all played a key role in the past century, and have remained ever-more relevant throughout.
He didn’t always rock his famous beard, when he was younger he was clean shaven!
Some significant works:
Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Critique of the Gotha Programme
Manifesto of the Communist Party (along with Engels)
And, of course, Capital Vol I-III
Interested in Marxism-Leninism, but don’t know where to start? Check out my “Read Theory, Darn it!” introductory reading list!
I wonder if he would have changed anything in his writing had he known the damage he was about to unleash. Reminds me of the Ricky Gervais bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CINep9Gqhk
Critiquing something is not damaging it. Your brain is broken if you blame anything on Marx. Who takes the blame for 3+ million children that starve to death every year under capitalism? Please explain.
Do comment deletions not get federated on lemmy or what? This is not the first time I commented something, regretted it almost instantly and deleted it, and the received replies several hours later.
Deletions of comments often don’t federate, so your comment will show as deleted on sopuli.xyz but not on Lemmy.ml.
By and large, Marx’s writings have been overwheingly positive for humanity. Even if he didn’t write as he did, though, Dialectical Materialism would have been synthesized by someone eventually, same with Scientific Socialism and the Law of Value. So in the end, I’d say he’d certainly be interested to see how Capitalism turned to Imperialism, as well as other advancements on his work, but I don’t think he’d abandon his work entirely.
As for the Ricky Gervais bit, Nietzsche was by no means “misunderstood,” he was always deeply reactionary. I recommend reading Really Existing Fascism.