Among Marx's best-known texts are the "The Communist Manifesto" and the three-volume "Das Kapital", in which he set out to define and explain the behavior of the capitalist mode of production.

Marx's political and philosophical thought have had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history, and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.

Marx's critical theories about society, economics and politics - collectively understood as Marxism - hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production, and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labor power in return for wages.

Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx concluded that, like previous socio-economic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as socialism.

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"Oh I think the USSR space program, the support of Cuba and other revolutions, the crushing of the Hungarian anti-communists and commieblocks were based. You know who I hate though? Khruschchev"

-Hexbear.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

I meditated upon this and reached Zhou Enlaightenment

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Having glazed the USSR half an hour ago while playing into the dynamic, I admit Russian history isn't my strong suit. I attribute a large amount of the USSR's downfall to the enormous cost of standing up to the bloodthirsty bully who discovered nuclear fission, immediately used it to create a bomb and dropped it on civilians frame 1. They then immediately started stockpiling enough of those bombs to end life as we know it and start waving them around making chauvinist demands in Afghanistan. So if they needed to play defense against the nuclear barbarians it probably took more than they were able to give. So if a white boy tried to bust it down sexual style with the economy, that sucks, but I could imagine where he was coming from.

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I agree with those things but still hate Khruschchev? This binary thinking is childish. And betrays a „great man“ thinking on your behalf. Was the political decision making in the Soviet Union just the work of „one man“?

Khruschchev reintroduced capitalism into the soviet system and dismantled stalin‘s successful collectivization program, like making one pay instead of sharing agricultural equipment.

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Hot take alert:

Khrushchev was a land of contrasts

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Pointing out positive things implemented either by direct order or with the consent of the leader of a country is great man history. Doing the inverse is just dialectical materialist though.

Your claim that i am childish while likely true is also ironically equally applicable to you, as your dislike of a man has left you in a situation where decisions made by him are only attriutable to him if you dislike them, and if you like them must have no relation to him whatsoever

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I like much of his foreign policy (except wrt China). USSR wasn't just one person, no country is.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think criticising the soviets for their China policy during this period is ludicrous, given that the Chinese position was to support the opposite of whatever the soviets did even if that meant supporting fascists, the US (But I repeat myself) or total lunatics. Should the USSR have applied to join the safari club? Should the USSR join the Chinese in shipping weapons to anticommunist guerillas fighting soviet aligned governments?

Edit: But my point was more that so much of what gets celebrated about the USSR happened under his direction or at least with his consent, not actually that he's without flaws or that he shouldn't be criticised.