12-01-2020, 03:01 PM
(12-01-2020, 02:14 PM)Einzige Wrote:(12-01-2020, 02:12 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(12-01-2020, 02:10 PM)Einzige Wrote:Quote: those elites... lavishly funded mirror-image Marxists to supplant Democrats.
Hilarious. Examples of these "lavishly funded"Marxists, please?
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Senators Pat Toomey and Ron Johnson seem obvious enough.
What? Are you accusing them of being Marxists or something? Bizarre.
Marxism holds that capitalism is an inherently dehumanizing, exploitative, destructive, warmongering, and otherwise hideous order beyond reform or humanization.
One need not be a Marxist to see a system so monstrous as so wrong. Maybe they see capitalism capable of some redemption if the overall society can humanize it to serve workers as well as capitalists and other elites within it, or if technology can render the worst features of capitalism irrelevant. In such a case one is not a Marxist.
To be a mirror-image Marxist, and this is not a term that I created, one endorses the nastiest features of capitalism in a Marxist stereotype as an ideal or an inevitability. Capitalists are fools to foster such a sick way of thought, for the people who wield it usually must receive bribes in the form of class privilege in the presence of great suffering. Such people are easy to disillusion. It is far easier to make an honest-to-Che-Guevara Marxist from such a reactionary than from a liberal who has more hope for a better world, even if such a world is still capitalist. Just have that reactionary doing farm labor or domestic service, or show him how a "Fordist" assembly line operates if he is a worker on it. That person will lose all faith in capitalism fast.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.