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[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

Didn’tReads

kelly

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Like a Lovecraft protagonist, my need to know wins out over the knowledge that knowing will shatter my mind

2 minutes later

dead-dove-3

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

I appreciate this reference

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

i'm not gonna read the comments. instead i'm gonna guess. someone who bothered to read the comments tell me how i did

  • marx didn't know economics 101 ancap-good

  • capitalism was bad back then, but then they got rid of child labor and gave us the 8 hour work day so it's ok liberalism

  • no samsung galaxy 1000 bougainvillion dead soypoint-2

  • i used to be a communist, then i got a job and moved out of my mom's basement smuglord

  • marx did holodomor stalin-comical-spoon

  • marx/lenin? how about mark levin. expert-shapiro

  • if i see someone holding this book in real life I'm gonna redacted frothingfash

  • pls... don't believe this trash... castro took my dad's egg monopoly rage-cry

  • you know, you can support a strong state that upholds the volk without being communist cryptofascist

  • tankies stole my democracy manifest democracy-manifest

  • trotsky invented the word racism to render debate impossible racist-lorry-driver

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Even better

Ugh.

Soul-crushing in its hatred of human nature, and irritating in its misconstruing of economic maxims. Beginning with a vast oversimplification of Adam Smith's theory of value, Marx proceeds to describe, for ants, bees and other insectile collectivists, the kind of economics he wishes had evolved among humans. He then offers--via a distortion of the Hegelian dialectic, which is itself a distortion of logic--a historicist, "scientific" account of how the "proletariat" will inevitably rise and take control of the world.

Conspiratorial, ignorant, brutally authoritarian. Bring antidepressants.

[–] Homestar440@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know, maybe I'm just in a weird mood, but this review made me happy. It's just so garbage, starting strong with human nature, going on to say that his bit about the ants and bees (literally in the first few pages) is what he thinks society should be like, and peppered with unnecessarily large words that nonetheless still leaves his criticism utterly vague and superficial. FeelsVindicatedMan

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Big "I skimmed the first 30 pages" energy from this one.

[–] ikiru@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Philosophy understander has logged on.

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Smh you forgot about human nature 😔

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A public forum based on reviews and designed like a YouTube comment section? No thanks. I don't want to suffer.

spoilerThough now I'm supremely curious.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

The intersection of people who post GoodReads reviews and the people who read all of Capital is tiny. This is just a bunch of liberals and tech bro libertarians drooling on themselves after reviewing Gambo and The Hobbit.

[–] seas_surround@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

That's the guy that never worked a single day in his life. Responsible for the deaths of tens or even hundreds of millions of humans on the planet. His legacy continues to this day with Critical Race Theory and trans paranoia copying his evil anti-White ideas, still claiming human lives.

there's no brain left here, it's worms all the way down