Definitely you like Carl Marx and all the ideology he sold to the people...
Marx was an outstanding analyst. His findings mostly hold true until today - and from how many social/economic scientist can you say that more then 100 years after they have died?
I don't like his works called as ideology (even if they might have ended up as such) because Marx' himself was very strict on the point that he is working on a "scientific socialism" in comparism to the utopias others created (Star Trek ;) ).
He stressed the point that the class free society would allow everyone to be free in his self progress and that this free progress of the individual is the basis of the free progress of all.
Sorry if that is hard to understand, but Marx is a stone to read even in German.
My father was graduated from "Marxist and Leninist Ideology and History", that was the exact name of his career in the university of Habana so I kind of know a bit about Marx and friends... and when I came out of Cuba I could even research a bit more and more freely.
What findings? Can you name one?
Why it was not an utopy what he created also? And just because he called "socialism scientific" it is not an ideology? :D The word science in the name it does not make it automatically true or Carl Marx a scientist as far as I know ;)
If this is not an utopy I do not know what utopy means... This could be only possible in "Erewhon" ;)
It is not hard to understand that you like the point of view of Carl Marx but that it does not make it practical or the "panacea" to the problems of the world.
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That capitalists will try to pay the lowest possible wage, ignoring if the worker starves?
That the accumulation of capital leeds to a small number of super riches and a broad class of poor workers?
The differnce is that the "utopists" just made their utopia, often ignoring the world.
Marx insisted on looking at the reality and - analyst, as I said - to make conclusions out of what was visible.
An ideology does not change (or not out of itself/from the leaders), while Marx did change some of his views over time because of new thoughts or data. As scientists should.
For example first he thought that there is no other way then revolution to get to communism. Later he thought there are other way (for countries that arent't already totally locked into capitalism).
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If I change my point of view in something it does not make me automatically a scientist... and an Ideology can change, split or not be used any more as had happen in history many times...
Marx was giving you an ideal society... from an european point of view seeing just the reality he knew. You are telling me that he took in account how the live of people in Africa , Latinoamerica or Asia was? You can say that societies looks like a lot but what about cultural heritage, way of thinking, geography of the region (believe me, if you are born in an island you do not think the same in many aspects as if you are born in a continental country) and so on???
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And I never said that. I also do not think that all of his ideas about the future are right. Still the world changed according to his predictions mostly. We do have a world were money decides and not the will of the people.
That is even shown in a "fresh" study of the German scientific help to the parliament (Wissenschaftlicher Dienst) who showed that interests of people get more response from politics if the people have money.
And of course the original wording got watered down when that study was officially presented by politicians. (It was part of a big yearly work.)
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Did you ever count the human factor in your ideas? Also Marx never did it, from my point of view, that is the reason why I called utopy his ideal society...
I think that you are wrong with this statement.... the desire of FEW PEOPLE with a lot of money decides in the world. Money is just a tool like the guns or ideologies for to put some examples... so the only reason why it does not work is because how humans are....
You should have a lot of social interactions in all levels to realize that... it is not something you know just for thinking about it
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