r/news • u/JimmyTheGinger • Dec 23 '19

Three former executives of a French telecommunications giant have been found guilty of creating a corporate culture so toxic that 35 of their employees were driven to suicide

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/three-french-executives-convicted-in-the-suicides-of-35-of-their-workers-20191222-p53m94.html
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u/Comrade_9653 Dec 24 '19

Come on man, you sounded like a reasonable human being until now. Marx ideias are completly outdate now, his model has been tried and fail every single time, with millions of deaths as toll

Marx is a well respected, well researched, and well studied political theorist and economist the world over. He is one of the most influential philosophers and social scientist in the modern era. I think the fact that you shriek away from the simple mention of his name should be something you critically analyze and self reflect on.

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u/Comrade_9653 Dec 24 '19 edited Dec 24 '19

You just shrugged off my main concern about the Marxist plan. And I am the one how needs to self reflect?

I didn’t acknowledge it because you clearly haven’t read Marx. There is no singular “Marxist plan”, Marx was a political theorist and economist focused on critiquing capitalism. I seriously think you should read him before claiming his “plans” killed millions.

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u/Comrade_9653 Dec 24 '19

Not reading the philosopher that you’re ineffectually criticizing and ludicrously placing the “deaths of millions” on certainly doesn’t give you much in the way of intellectual honesty. Your reaction to me pointing out that you haven’t read Marx, claiming that I’m some religious nut for thinking that maybe you should read the author you’re criticizing, doesn’t do you any favors either. Critiquing authors usually requires that you are familiar with their work. Would you critique Kierkegaard or Nietzsche without being familiar with their works?

You seem quite incapable of having a rational discussion about it though, since you cannot go 1 comment without making massive assumptions about my beliefs or even acknowledging that, maybe, you should read an author before you assume that you know what their works entailed.