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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump calls Black Lives Matter a "Marxist organization" and says it's "discriminatory."
Link to tweet
Interview with Laura Ingraham.
From what I'm reading on Twitter this sounds like it's going worse than the presser.
TheBlackAdder
(28,072 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,649 posts)Too bad he wouldn't know the difference between Karl and Groucho...
struggle4progress
(118,037 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,059 posts)The more he talks, the better off WE are.
Cha
(295,899 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)Xolodno
(6,330 posts)It's a philosophical rag and not much else. If Trumpers actually turned off the TV and went to the library....they wouldn't find much value in it....but this assumes Trumpers can read.
The real work by Marx, is "Capital". But it does require a level of intelligence above Trump to understand.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)Xolodno
(6,330 posts)Engels was either the main author or influencer of this work. The Capital, written by Marx is logical and still has profound critiques of economics today, much like Smith, Ricardo, Keynes, etc. The Communist Manifesto describes a utopia with no real road map to obtain it. Pie in the sky. Economics is a science and like all science, new information means you have to adjust your theories.
crickets
(25,896 posts)It doesn't actually make any sense; it doesn't have to. It just gives people an excuse to scream, "BOO!" and be ugly.
Midnight Writer
(21,546 posts)DFW
(54,050 posts)Probably couldnt tell you the first thing about Marxism. Hell, they couldnt tell you where he was from, where and when Marx lived, or even his first name (and no, Donald, it wasnt Groucho).