Marx

macallan25 · #1 11-08-2006, 12:34 AM

I actually just read the entire Communist Manifesto a week ago for a paper.

DSTCHAOS · #2 11-08-2006, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by macallan25

I actually just read the entire Communist Manifesto a week ago for a paper.

Was it torture or were you able to enjoy it for what it's worth?

Elephant Walk · #3 11-08-2006, 12:48 AM

I read it in high school for fun, Marx intrigues me but flaws in theory don't. It's an interesting read and sometimes beautifully written (a spectre is haunting europe....) but that's about where it ends.

macallan25 · #4 11-08-2006, 01:11 AM

I thought it was pretty interesting. I agree though...his theories were pretty out there. Doing away with inheritance is definitely not frat.

........although that was a very small part of the work as a whole.

DSTCHAOS · #5 11-08-2006, 01:14 AM

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I read it in high school for fun, Marx intrigues me but flaws in theory don't. It's an interesting read and sometimes beautifully written (a spectre is haunting europe....) but that's about where it ends.

Agreed.

There are flaws in every theory. Marxist conflict theory and theory of capitalism is criticized for a few things, including ignoring the roles or gender and race and predicting a worker revolt against capitalism that never quite happened. But that hasn't stopped Marxist conflict theory from being one of the main conflict theories discussed and his perspective on capitalism from still being used in class analysis, as well as Neo-Marxian and Marxist feminist theories. I know of a few theorists who are taking Marx to a whole new level and applying it to the 21st century. Kind of cool.

RU OX Alum · #6 11-09-2006, 01:29 PM

I think it's cool he got paid to write. He makes some good points, and some bad ones, just like everyone else.

macallan25 · #7 11-09-2006, 02:39 PM

I didn't start this thread......what is going on here? Seriously.

DSTCHAOS · #8 11-10-2006, 05:00 PM

An entire thread?

ShamikaT · #9 11-10-2006, 05:36 PM

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An entire thread?

Someone could've hijacked his UN, not a thread.

DSTCHAOS · #10 11-10-2006, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ShamikaT

Someone could've hijacked his UN, not a thread.

No, the first 5 posts of this thread came from another thread.

ShamikaT · #11 11-10-2006, 05:41 PM

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No, the first 5 posts of this thread came from another thread.

Nevermind, I overlooked macallan's last post.

macallan25 · #12 11-10-2006, 05:39 PM

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Someone could've hijacked his UN, not a thread.

Goodness......no one stole my username or jacked my password. The first 5posts of this thread were at the very end of the Johns Hopkins Halloween Party thread in the RM forum....the thread is now closed......and those last 5 posts were transfered into this forum and posted as a new thread.

DSTCHAOS · #13 11-10-2006, 05:42 PM

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Goodness......no one stole my username or jacked my password. The first 5posts of this thread were at the very end of the Johns Hopkins Halloween Party thread in the RM forum....the thread is now closed......and those last 5 posts were transfered into this forum and posted as a new thread.

Yeah well since we have our own thread, let's see if we can make this thread "exciting" enough to get closed, too.

I shall cut thee who sayeth Marx is a commi bastard!!!!!

macallan25 · #14 11-10-2006, 06:12 PM

I don't think that would be too difficult.....you know me.