Understanding Marxism - Richard D. Wolff
Category: History, Political
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Why should we pay attention to the great social critics like Marx? Americans, especially now, confront serious questions and evidences that our capitalist system is in trouble. It clearly serves the 1% far, far better than what it is doing to the vast mass of the people. Marx was a social critic for whom capitalism was not the end of human history. It was just the latest phase and badly needed the transition to something better. We offer this essay now because of the power and usefulness today of Marx’s criticism of the capitalist economic system.
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| Comment: | Why should we pay attention to the great social critics like Marx? Americans, especially now, confront serious questions and evidences that our capitalist system is in trouble. It clearly serves the 1% far, far better than what it is doing to the vast mass of the people. Marx was a social critic for whom capitalism was not the end of human history. It was just the latest phase and badly needed the transition to something better. We offer this essay now because of the power and usefulness today of Marx’s criticism of the capitalist economic system. Updated by AudioBook Bay |
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This post has 28 comments with rating of 4.4/5
September 16th, 2021
Lol. Might as well have entitled it “understanding insanity”
September 16th, 2021
Understand what, that it failed everywhere its been tried, subjugated the vast majority of the people while the elites prospered, murdered countless millions and destroyed the individual soul?
The question remains. Why even think that it can work here or anywhere else?
September 16th, 2021
Our capitalist economy is in trouble due to the Marxists in our government that want “free” everything to buy votes and cement their powers. $3+ trillion spending packages over and above the budget submitted by these Marxists regardless of the debt are contributing to the downfall of capitalism.
Marxism has to be simplified due to their destruction of our education system……
September 16th, 2021
Should have been titled “Understanding bullsh*t hypocrisy incompetence, thuggery and exploiting working class for your own benefits more than capitalists” But a little long winded. But thats Marxism anyway the proponents (Antifart and the rest) always expect themselves to be the Stalin over and above the common hoi polloi
September 16th, 2021
Might be worth a listen - after all, know your enemy.
September 16th, 2021
Step one to utopia: Destroy your economy
Step two to utopia: Blame, starve and kill your citizens out of annoyance that reality conflicts with your quasi religious doctrine.
September 16th, 2021
@tesstbd has the best take so far.
September 17th, 2021
Jesus Christ, people, settle down. It’s a book. Full blown Marxism might be kind of nuts, but the Marxist critique of capitalism itself is important and there can be valuable elements in it. Settle. Down.
September 17th, 2021
Thank you.
September 17th, 2021
Marxism is not Stalin-ism.
By methodically pointing our the flaws in capitalism, it started a debate that made capitalism tone-down its adverse effects over common people and be better.
That is the beauty of critical and opposing views.
Always welcome criticism.
September 18th, 2021
FELLOW WAGE SLAVES, as we all know Marx killed 100 million people BY HIMSELF! Now that’s some amazing power, I guess he lifted a lot. We should learn his ways so we too can bench 100 million people solely with the swoleness of marxist theory.
September 18th, 2021
I think that might be a reductio fallacy, ed. Disrespectful to the real victims, as we know. There’s no shame in knowing the actual consequences of the application of the theory. In practice & effect, the ideology became Stalinism, Maoism, Cuba, North Korea, Eastern Europe, Vietnam, Cambodia, etc. Although, remember there was a warrant for terror & violence in Marx’s actual writings.
We should indeed always welcome criticism, just as Marxist ideologues should have accepted such reasonable critique & accurate warnings of failure, instead of committing unprecedented genocide & brutally enslaving entire populations.
September 19th, 2021
@caesar963
“Became Vietnam, Cambodia”
And what’s wrong with Vietnam, Cambodia please?
I think it was American bombing rather than Marxism that caused their troubles.
September 19th, 2021
@caesar963
Hilarious how you let comment after swivel-eyed comment from the usual bootlickers go by, but as soon as someone jumps to the defence, you’re all over them. For someone that enjoys calling people racists, you seem to have a very high tolerance for actual fascists.
September 19th, 2021
And to everyone else - you’re too stupid to understand Marxism, which is why you all sh1t your little panties whenever it’s mentioned.
September 19th, 2021
Hang on: fascists? On another upload, I condemned virulent anti-Semitism - and you, in your infinite, infantile wisdom, let the bigotry go by, and foamingly attacked me. Then, a couple of days ago, I identified the overwhelming atrocities & racism of the brutish empire - and there you were again, bravely letting the bigotry go by, and hysterically attacking me for stating the truth. WT actual F?!
So you think we shouldn’t know about & understand the genocides, forced famines, torture & enslavement committed by Marxists & their fellow travellers? Aren’t defenders of such evil mere bootlickers? How are any of these good things - worthy of defending?
But then “what’s wrong with Vietnam, Cambodia?” Really?
As we know, enormous numbers of Vietnamese people neither wanted or supported the violent communist insurgency. Weirdly, they wanted democracy & human rights.
The North Vietnamese enforced “denied areas” to reporters. Therefore, no visual images chronicled the history of the brutal murders of 15,000 people in Nth Vietnam during the mid-1950’s, during a single campaign. General Vo Nguyen Giap acknowledged in a 1956 speech that targetted people were “enemies”, subject to “strong measures”, i.e. tortured confessions. Catholics were also persecuted, and over 650,000 fled to Sth Vietnam.
In 1967, during a nighttime attack a coalition of Viet Cong guerrillas & Nth Vietnamese troops set the village of Dak Son on fire as its people slept. The assailants used flamethrowers & grenades, and they had their rifles ready for anyone who tried to escape. Villagers who awoke to find the roofs of their thatched huts aflame tried to run, and many of those who managed to scurry into earthen tunnels and caves before bullets mowed them down were washed in the fire blasts of the flamethrowers or asphyxiated.
The guerrillas decided to make an example of Dak Son to try and prevent subsequent escapes from Viet Cong-controlled territories. The Dak Son massacre was a microcosm of what the population suffered.
This terrorism was a central component of Viet Cong strategy, including the massacre of thousands of civilians at Hue. The nature of their terrorism was entirely calculated, as it was a primary tactic in their war strategy. The mythology surrounding the image of the Viet Cong as an organic movement masks the planning, training and expertise that shaped and executed its terror strategy.
Terrorists carried out assassinations, planted explosives and launched grenades into crowded spaces. The Viet Cong mainly targetted villages; the goal of an attack being to incite terror & fear. When targetting individuals in rural areas, guerrillas focused on village and hamlet chiefs, teachers and other “traitors,” as well as foreigners including priests & other missionaries, and humanitarian aid workers.
Through terrorism, the Viet Cong aimed to instill fear in the citizenry and destabilise the political system, undermining efforts to establish democratic society.
The orthodox view ignores Vietnamese agency, strategy or worldview, and it does not account for the diversity of opinions in Nth and Sth Vietnam about what an independent Vietnam should look like.
Viet Cong were all complicit in the imprisoning, torturing and killing of Vietnamese civilians. Scrutinising North Vietnamese and Viet Cong violence & terrorism need not overshadow the destruction Americans caused in Vietnam. Acknowledging Vietnamese decision-making and actions, including violence against fellow Vietnamese, recognises the complexity & agency of the Vietnamese combatants.
“Re-education camps” is the Orwellian title given to the institutions operated by the Communist regime of Vietnam following the end of the war. In such “re-education camps”, the regime imprisoned up to 1 million human beings. Re-education as it was implemented in Vietnam was seen as both a means of revenge and a sophisticated technique of repression & indoctrination. Prisoners were tortured and abused. Victims were incarcerated for periods of up to 18 yrs.
Vietnamese boat people refers to the refugees who fled the communist regime which had invaded Sth Vietnam. This migration & humanitarian crisis was at its highest in 1978 & 1979, but continued thru the early 1990s. The term is often used generically to refer to the Vietnamese people who left their country in mass exodus betw 1975 & 1995.
The number of boat people leaving Vietnam & arriving safely in another country amounted to almost 800,000 between 1975 and 1995. Many of the refugees didn’t survive the passage. 400,000 boat people died at sea. Horrifyingly, tens of thousands were involuntarily repatriated back to Vietnam.
The Cambodian genocide resulted in a nationwide death toll from 1975-79 amounting to almost a quarter of the population. Internal Khmer Rouge security documents indicate that the violence was carried out pursuant to orders from the highest political authorities of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, The widespread atrocities committed against the minority Cham people echoed Marx’s definition of “A historyless people doomed to extinction in the name of progress.”
“And what’s wrong with Vietnam, Cambodia please?”
September 21st, 2021
Thank you to uploader. Good book. My respect to R. Wolf. Interesting how all this precariat and middle-class commentators are quick to condemn Marxism for supposedly killing millions but not mention a word about capitalist killing people, new colonize countries, steal their resources, enthrone dictators, destroy states, socialize bank losses and breakdowns, transfer public money to corporations’ pockets, etc., etc. Good to mention all history no one face of it.
September 21st, 2021
Marxism “supposedly killing millions?!” Come now. The last century was awash with the products of the Marxist mincing machine. We all know the slave states, and the events.
As for only identifying Marxist genocide & atrocities, you can’t have read what I wrote. Because in the same comment above I condemned “the overwhelming atrocities & racism of the brutish empire.”
We ought to mention all history, and not merely one face of it - and some of us actually do.
September 21st, 2021
Every generation since Marx has “discovered” Marxism. If you read the history of Marxism in practice, the only thing to discover is hopeless naivete and unintended destruction.
September 22nd, 2021
@caesar963
I didn’t see your supposedly passionate condemnation of anti-semitism because, unlike you, I am not on this website, proffering inanity, every hour that god sends.
As for your anti-colonialism, that mostly seems to consist of calling people racist when they don’t agree with you, whether they deserve the epithet or not.
And finally - I live in Vietnam and have many years of study of the country and its conflicts. I have literally zero interest in another long-ass flush of ctrl-v gobsh1te from the likes of you, so I didn’t read it. I hope you enjoyed posting it.
September 22nd, 2021
My condemnation of anti-Semitism was precisely what you were responding to when you hysterically attacked. Attempting a sweaty retcon now is therefore characteristically illogical.
I quite accurately observed that the brutish empire was genocidal & racist. You disagree?
You asked (weirdly necessary memory prompt here) “what’s wrong with Vietnam, Cambodia please?” I responded, detailing just some of the disastrous ideological history. If you have genuinely studied the history, you ought to know & be able to honestly admit the details yourself.
But no, you can’t bear the answer. It’s terrifying to imagine the state of learning in the world if everyone has your all-consuming curiosity.
October 7th, 2021
“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.”
— Ayn Rand
October 17th, 2021
Wow, didn’t see that, thnk you so much
October 22nd, 2021
@apollo60
Hahaha Ayn Rand is ridiculous. Maybe you should actually listen or read this book
November 30th, 2021
It is comical seeing people react with such violent revulsion against a 19th century philosopher they know nothing about.
Always reminds me of Pavlov’s dogs
March 7th, 2024
people are wise and eager to learn about ideas here correct?
Thanks for sharing btw
July 22nd, 2024
Bravo. Thank you.
January 24th, 2026
Thanks
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