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A review by lipsandpalms
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
2.0
Free trade is exploitation (who is being exploited? It's an agreed trade. If one did not like the deal, they could deny it. It's free, not compelled or obligatory)
National industry is destroyed (What is a national industry?)
Too much commerce and industry has broken down civilization (depends on what your definition of civilization is I suppose)
To cope with overproduction, the bourgeoise enforce destruction of a mass of productive forces. (I'd like to hear an example of this purposeful destruction of goods)
The price of a commodity is equal to its cost of production. (Price is determined by supply and demand)
As the repulsiveness of work increases the wage decreases. (I would think the opposite would be true)
As the use of machinery increases, the burden of toil increases. (I would think the opposite would be true)
Workers are slaves to their bourgeoise and to their machines. (I disagree. The worker has more freedom now than ever and other any other system.
The less skill and strength requirements of labor, more the labor of men is superceded by the women. (so?)
Confiscation of all property owned my immigrants and rebels (what?!)
Establish industrial agriculture army (forcibly? Why join voluntarily?)
Distribute people across the country (using appropriated land no doubt)
Free education for children(this one I agree with)
Capitalism is a dystopian nightmare. Every person stripped of any required skill or workmanship in order to become a cog in the everly increasing efficiency of the machine. Their lives revolving upon the accumulation of capital in order to achieve minimum subsistence. Or at least that's what Marx believes. It's odd to me that someone could understand so much about the benefits of the free market, namely its incentives for improvement, yet still believe it is inherently exploitative and evil. I wonder what Marx would think of the modern era after seeing what capitalism has achieved in technological advancement. Education, medicine, communication and so many more things could not have been achieved otherwise. I'd argue that, while it does have its faults, capitalism is the only system that could have brought us to the peak of advancement we enjoy today. It's interesting to me that Marx is primarily against what we would consider to be the middle class today. Factory bosses and landlords. Not the obscenely rich. Do contemporary Marxists understand they are the villains in their own story?
National industry is destroyed (What is a national industry?)
Too much commerce and industry has broken down civilization (depends on what your definition of civilization is I suppose)
To cope with overproduction, the bourgeoise enforce destruction of a mass of productive forces. (I'd like to hear an example of this purposeful destruction of goods)
The price of a commodity is equal to its cost of production. (Price is determined by supply and demand)
As the repulsiveness of work increases the wage decreases. (I would think the opposite would be true)
As the use of machinery increases, the burden of toil increases. (I would think the opposite would be true)
Workers are slaves to their bourgeoise and to their machines. (I disagree. The worker has more freedom now than ever and other any other system.
The less skill and strength requirements of labor, more the labor of men is superceded by the women. (so?)
Confiscation of all property owned my immigrants and rebels (what?!)
Establish industrial agriculture army (forcibly? Why join voluntarily?)
Distribute people across the country (using appropriated land no doubt)
Free education for children(this one I agree with)
Capitalism is a dystopian nightmare. Every person stripped of any required skill or workmanship in order to become a cog in the everly increasing efficiency of the machine. Their lives revolving upon the accumulation of capital in order to achieve minimum subsistence. Or at least that's what Marx believes. It's odd to me that someone could understand so much about the benefits of the free market, namely its incentives for improvement, yet still believe it is inherently exploitative and evil. I wonder what Marx would think of the modern era after seeing what capitalism has achieved in technological advancement. Education, medicine, communication and so many more things could not have been achieved otherwise. I'd argue that, while it does have its faults, capitalism is the only system that could have brought us to the peak of advancement we enjoy today. It's interesting to me that Marx is primarily against what we would consider to be the middle class today. Factory bosses and landlords. Not the obscenely rich. Do contemporary Marxists understand they are the villains in their own story?