• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    In Marxism, Marx is considered a necessity of the systems flaws… Not some super special genius. I believe the idea is that if Marx hadn’t come along, someone else would have expressed the same ideas as they’re a product of history… Rather than of exceptional knowledge or “great man” theory.

    I imagine most people alive today “know more” than Marx did in the 1800s.

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      7 hours ago

      I imagine most people alive today “know more” than Marx did in the 1800s.

      Wow. Imagination is your super power.

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        Okay, I’ll say it outright. Your average person today knows more than anyone in the 1800s. Marx included.

        Cars, planes, TV, electricity, Computers, the Internet… All facilitated a massive increase in knowledge transmission.

        What’s more I think you’re kind of an idiot for believing otherwise.