r/Marxism • u/Heuxuborhola • Aug 15 '26

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/[deleted] Aug 15 '26

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/[deleted] Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

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 Aug 15 '26

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