Okay so then how is he worth that much?
These memes and stories are like, "its unbelievable that Bezos is worth so much money", no it makes perfect sense!
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Putin seems to make implicit threats every time he opens his mouth, and I'm sure Musk's "I'm a very dangerous crazy loose cannon billionaire" that is such a huge part of his public image, even -- maybe especially -- with heads of state, went over extremely well with an actually very dangerous guy who tames loose cannon billionaires as a part of his actually very dangerous job.
This is garbage why should I care about what some nerd with a sub stack thinks about other academics? Intellectuals suck, Marxist intellectuals are no exception. So in the wake of MacCarthyism, at the dawn of Neoliberalism, intellectuals in universities were being pressured to gravitate away from Marx. No shit. Does this mean they were correct to do so? Well the death of the militant labor movement around the same time would give us some indication.
Why would you care so much to try and ensure that people don't read very good books that you likely havent read? Seems like someone with an axe to grind. But let me assure anyone who is reading this, Marxist Intellectuals are as big a pain I'm the ass, and kind of necessary, as they are in any other org. The problem isn't with the intellectuals though, it's that there's not enough regular working people who read and understand revolutionary theory to push back against them and their tendencies toward splits and polemics and laziness.
This is the problem with not reading Marxism though, the basis of the argument is "all these smart people stopped studying Marx" and takes it for granted that it is because the source material was somehow incorrect. And maybe some of it was, there's no shortage of that. But that explanation completely ignores structural and social pressures that would have been a clearer and more direct explanation than, "all at once all these smart nerds left Marxism, so they must have been right to do so." This is not what causes a mass exodus. What causes someone to leave a field of study for another one is the threat that their livelihood will be taken away.
Its so funny I wonder if this would have worked on someone who was new to Marxism. Homie I'm so far gone, if you think this post might be the reason someone would give up on reading Marx that person would have to be already unfamiliar. Actually engaging with other Marxists will do more to run you out of Marxism than this goofy ass nerd ass substack
I did neither of those things, literally
Wow 70 years of history is so flat, it just folds right up in your pocket like that, stunning. Its possible you've left a few details out
So no, no one understands it.
What was the last nail, exactly? I don't see how swapping out neo-liberal drivel with "scientific Marxist drivel" would be any improvement
It appears you've discovered the flaw in my post
But since its a misrepresentation of Lenin I'm still right
Does anybody understand what this meme is trying to say? I feel like its pretty obvious
Cuz that's what this meme is trying to abandon - science
Not pictured here: people who study history, political and social history, organizes IRL, cares about democracy, tries to understand and communicate with others the need for revolutionary political, social, democratic, and economic changes while acknowledging the challenges of that necessity
The current productive apparatus already produces much more than is necessary to take care of everybody's needs. Which means we could do degrowth, egalitarianism, and improve standard of living for everybody at a fraction of our current output. The free market is a kind of planning, its an inefficient one that delivers profits to owners and corporations and stockholders. While creating monumental amounts of waste.
The means of production are ripe, maybe beyond ripe, but the class of workers has to seize them for mutual benefit.
But his parents weren't super rich billionaires, were they? No one had a hundred billion dollars before, he didnt get it all from his parents, where did he get it all?