it was brought up to explain why “it’s just saying it has negative connotations” doesn’t make something neutral
No, it was brought up to draw equivalence to Marxism, don’t play coy.
you’re kind of just imagining a different post at this point?
this post very specifically makes the point that marxism isn’t popular, but its ideas are. that’s like the whole point of the post
No, Marxism is popular, it’s just sold as different names. Big difference.
also, “easily understood” what? we haven’t even defined what sort of marxism we’re talking about here
Is there some other kind we need to worry about here that’s hard to understand?
again, i’ve given two examples where the average person would probably support eugenics-in-description-only
No, you pretended the average person would.
No, it was brought up to draw equivalence to Marxism, don’t play coy.
cool ur jets buddy
it wasn’t, and doesn’t even really make sense when read through that lens
what kind of person comes into a thread and posts a pro-communism video clip and then angrily equates marxism to nazism?
No, Marxism is popular, it’s just sold as different names.
that’s describing the same sentiment i just expressed using different words
Is there some other kind we need to worry about here that’s hard to understand?
honestly the term “marxism” is nebulous enough that just deciding on what counts as “in-scope” is kind of non-trivial
are we talking about the economic theory? marxist communism? the whole body of marx’s work?
what definition are you using?
No, you pretended the average person would.
i’m fairly confused what you’re trying to say here
are you saying that that, for those two concepts, you don’t think you could pitch the basic ideas behind them in a way such that the average person would agree?
cool ur jets buddy
it wasn’t, and doesn’t even really make sense when read through that lens
what kind of person comes into a thread and posts a pro-communism video clip and then angrily equates marxism to nazism?
I dunno, why bring up the Nazis as though they had popular ideas?
honestly the term “marxism” is nebulous enough that just deciding on what counts as “in-scope” is kind of non-trivial
are we talking about the economic theory? marxist communism? the whole body of marx’s work?
What parts of Marxism do you want to chop off? I am referring to the whole of Marxism, ie critique of Capitalism, philosophical grounding in Dialectical and Historical Materialism, and Communism.
are you saying that that, for those two concepts, you don’t think you could pitch the basic ideas behind them in a way such that the average person would agree?
Yes, people generally don’t agree with the ideas posed by Nazism.
I dunno, why bring up the Nazis as though they had popular ideas?
i didn’t and i’ve already clarified that?
i’m not sure what more there is to say on this
What parts of Marxism do you want to chop off?
if you’re referring to everything then that would include stuff like das kapital which i don’t think you can reasonably refer to as “easy to understand”
“philosophical grounding in Dialectical and Historical Materialism” also seems like it would be a fairly hard thing for the average person to understand
also, marx didn’t invent communism, so to say communism is contained within marxism is incorrect
the opening of the communist manifesto literally references the fact that european powers were already trying to “exorcise” the idea from the continent at the time
Yes, people generally don’t agree with the ideas posed by Nazism.
nazism proposed pre-natal scanning and graduate family planning stimulus? that’s news to me
