You ever read the comments on the GoodReads.com page for Das Kapital? (www.goodreads.com)

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[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

i'm not gonna read the comments. instead i'm gonna guess. someone who bothered to read the comments tell me how i did

marx didn't know economics 101
capitalism was bad back then, but then they got rid of child labor and gave us the 8 hour work day so it's ok
no samsung galaxy 1000 bougainvillion dead
i used to be a communist, then i got a job and moved out of my mom's basement
marx did holodomor
marx/lenin? how about mark levin.
if i see someone holding this book in real life I'm gonna redacted
pls... don't believe this trash... castro took my dad's egg monopoly
you know, you can support a strong state that upholds the volk without being communist
tankies stole my democracy manifest
trotsky invented the word racism to render debate impossible

[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Even better

Ugh.

Soul-crushing in its hatred of human nature, and irritating in its misconstruing of economic maxims. Beginning with a vast oversimplification of Adam Smith's theory of value, Marx proceeds to describe, for ants, bees and other insectile collectivists, the kind of economics he wishes had evolved among humans. He then offers--via a distortion of the Hegelian dialectic, which is itself a distortion of logic--a historicist, "scientific" account of how the "proletariat" will inevitably rise and take control of the world.

Conspiratorial, ignorant, brutally authoritarian. Bring antidepressants.

[-] Homestar440@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I don't know, maybe I'm just in a weird mood, but this review made me happy. It's just so garbage, starting strong with human nature, going on to say that his bit about the ants and bees (literally in the first few pages) is what he thinks society should be like, and peppered with unnecessarily large words that nonetheless still leaves his criticism utterly vague and superficial. FeelsVindicatedMan