What are your thoughts on Karl Marx?

Answer 1

probably the smartest man that ever lived.

Answer 2

It is always hard to put yourself in the historical place of another person. And it is a mistake to judge yester year's writings by today perspective. So I express my thought on Karl Marx with a bit of trepidation.

In my view Karl Marx theories have not panned out for two reasons. First and foremost he lived at a time when people were either very poor or very rich. Therefore, he failed to see the rise of the middle class in the capitalist system. With the rise of a very strong middle class economies grew rapidly as capitalist had more people with disposable income to sell to. Thus the middle class and capitalists became inter dependent on each other. Without a strong middle class the capitalist had diminished markets and without a strong capitalist core a strong middle class was impossible. And with a strong middle class there was no need for Marx theories of "from each according to his wealth to each according to his need" for the need of he middle class was now met and met quite well.

Secondly, Marx could not possibly have envisioned how totalitarians would hijack his theories and become a system where the State controlled not only industry and Enterprise but also thought and behavior. Marx never intended that to be. The undoing of the Soviet Union was as much a political undoing as it was an economic undoing and justifiably so.

Answer 3

He should probably be commended for trying to simplify economics in terms of capital use and putting a moral thumbprint on otherwise antiseptic topics. But I also think he tended to over-simplify capitalists as exploiters of labor. Rand had her evil poor, Marx had his evil rich. Both seem to relegate their actors as comic book villains, devoid of any depth other than evil chagrin

Answer 4

He was a genius and had a great theory of Socialism. Unfortunately, the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and all of those other Communist places took the name of his theory and messed it up so badly that it would never work. *Their* Socialism was more like a dictatorship.

Answer 5

Marx pronounced "faith is the opiate of the human beings" so he'd no longer fairly locate straight forward reason with Jesus. grow to be Jesus a "socialist"? annoying to assert. He as quickly as pronounced "render onto Ceaser, etc."

Answer 6

Just another misguided individual.

Philosophies tend to address the emotional experience of the author without any real insight into why the individual is proposing their theories.

Marxism suits those who are envious but who have not had the same fortune as others. Marxism also suits those who have a distorted sense of what fairness is.

Answer 7

It is a shame that the the communist had ruined his name, and plans. His writing on the condidtion of modern man were exact one he wrote on the subject. Now they are more exact, we have placed our money in the hands of the few, against his warning.

Answer 8

He was an idiot.

Communism depends on a single premise, which is the "Labor Theory of Value," which holds that everything produced has a value which is the sum total of the Labor which went to producing it. This premise is demonstrably false.

In fact, it isn't even necessary to prove it to anyone smart enough to realize that if two watches come off of an assembly line together, the Labor Theory of Value presumes they have the same precise value, even if one of them doesn't actually work.

Answer 9

I believe that he had a good idea but it just wasn't suited to work in any world involving humans. We're simply not willing to give up what they have to become equals.

Answer 10

Great theory but it is impossible to practice