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Karl Marx, born on this day in 1818, was a foundational political theorist and journalist associated with the philosophy of Marxism.
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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"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.
I agree with those things but still hate Khruschchev? This binary thinking is childish. And betrays a โgreat manโ thinking on your behalf. Was the political decision making in the Soviet Union just the work of โone manโ?
Khruschchev reintroduced capitalism into the soviet system and dismantled stalinโs successful collectivization program, like making one pay instead of sharing agricultural equipment.
Hot take alert:
Khrushchev was a land of contrasts
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