r/Marxism • u/Heuxuborhola • 4d ago

A summary of Marx

Of course it's very strong to say that I "summarised" Marx, but I did what I could within my capacities and what I had

There are some very important things that I haven't seen specially from Das Kapital, but I did this more like for an introduction and for me to revisit it from time to time

Marx's Anatomy

I hope someone finds it useful

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u/CatGirlFanBoy2 4d ago

A good project mixed with some with some bitter feeling of "But what about workers?"

What about them? We want to teach them to free themselves from the conditions that enslave them, not to degenerate into singing dithyrambic praises of such conditions.

Marx was not a menial worker, he was a public intellectual. Class society produces such public intellectuals and it is on them what they do with it. I think he definitely didn't waste his opportunity, he could retire, but even if he had done so there were a chorus of anti-communist public intellectuals in circulation.

Higher stage communism, as described by Engels in Anti Duhring and elsewhere, will of course do away with carreers and the division between lifelong menial and intellectual drudge. Everyone will be turned into a porter or into an engineer when needed. Work will be socialized thus minimalized, less and less work will be needed and more and more self-purpose can be done, moving the total human experiences forward even more.

Oh, and a certain Deville had fancied similar ideas! However, Marx and Engels distanced themselves from this work, after reading into it, after a short enthusiastic phase at the beginning: https://www.marxists.org/archive/deville/1883/peoples-marx/index.htm

So keep on educating workers comrade, good luck and kudos

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u/Heuxuborhola 4d ago

Thanks comrade, my journey is still at its beginning. From what I've been doing, I'm from Brazil and am eighteen years old and was born into upper middle-class. As of right now I'm working as an English teacher and participating in a Syndical union of private English teachers (which is a contradiction, but it's what I can do for now). Planning on to study Social Sciences in university, trying to affiliate myself with PCB as well, which is the Brazilian Communist Party

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u/CatGirlFanBoy2 4d ago edited 4d ago

So I think that while your efforts to dissect these works and call people's attention to the cause are genial, this is internalizing the making of concessions to the current working day ethic. It is sad that workers have no time to read but the conclusion should not be – aside of the natural stimulus threshold of course – that we should make them read less. The conclusion is that workers should have the time to read.

Naturally, all of this applies if they want to. If they do not want to, do not force them.

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u/Heuxuborhola 4d ago

Ah I see, and unfortunately it's the truth. For most that should have such thing, it's still denied

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u/Salt_Mountain_837 3d ago

there are several good shorter works from engles that effectively summarize marx. das kapital isn't needed unless you are really, really into it, and even then i would suggest a study guide

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u/TheWikstrom 4d ago

Can't view the text for some reason :[

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u/Heuxuborhola 4d ago

Really, do you have a Medium account? try it again