Broletariat: But in response to the so-called "mud pie conundrum", Marxists claim that not every kind of labour creates value, but only socially useful labour.
The labour of the typewriter makers...
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Broletariat: But in response to the so-called...Broletariat: But in response to the so-called "mud pie conundrum", Marxists claim that not every kind of labour creates value, but only socially useful labour.
The labour of the typewriter makers...
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Question about LTVLet's take old typewriters for example. When they were produced, they were popular commodities. Today the interest in them is almost completely gone. Did their value, according to the labour theory...
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Reforms and socialismIf, according to Marx, general wage increases drive the average rate of profit of the capitalist class down, why is a revolution required?
Why can't consequent wage increases drive the rate of...
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Althusser: Ideology has no historyCan someone explain Althusser's claim that "ideology has no history"? What is it supposed to mean?
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How does capitalism create racism?I've often seen it claimed that racism is a product of capitalism. Can someone elaborate on that?
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Question about left communismDo left communists accept the following things?:
* The vanguard party. If they do, what is their conception of its role and how does it differ from that of Leninists?
* Dialectical materialism...
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Yet the situation in Israel is very different...Yet the situation in Israel is very different from the situation in South Africa. Israel, unlike SA, has a broad Jewish working class whose interests are opposed to those of the ruling elite and to...
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Opinion on BDS?What is your opinion on the BDS movement that aims to instate boycotts, fund divestment and sanction on Israel and its economy? Why do you support it or reject it?
Please refer to the following...
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Lenin and the SovietsThis question is mostly for anti-Leninists.
Many anti-Leninists claim that the Bolsheviks had circumvented the soviets already in Lenin's
lifetime, and that they emptied them of any truly...
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Thanks for the answers, but I feel the second...Thanks for the answers, but I feel the second part of my question was not really answered -- what should they have done about the holocaust?
Why should have the internationalists chosen (as some...
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What should have internationalists done at WWII?What did internationalists do during WWII, and what should have they done both in regard to the war and to the Holocaust?
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How does that settle with them "coming to power"...How does that settle with them "coming to power" under the form of a "democratic republic", though? How could the Parisian proletariat come to power under a form that was not yet created?
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Marx and ElectoralismDid Marx support electoralism? How did he think that the revolution would come about, generally? Through the ballot?
What does Engels' statement here mean?:
Please provide citations if...
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Yeah, well, that's hardly relevant to Marx's...Yeah, well, that's hardly relevant to Marx's views at his time, is it? :P
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How can you explain, then, that beforehand he...How can you explain, then, that beforehand he called upon the proletariat to seize the state and yet he praised the commune for aiming to abolish the state?
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The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the armyAccording to Marxism, after establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat, how will the proletariat fight the bourgeoisie and other enemies it might have?
Will it use an army? Will it employ...
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AFAIK the number of peasants who owned the land...AFAIK the number of peasants who owned the land they worked during Marx's time was not at all insignificant.
In the quotes you provided from the Communist Manifesto Marx treats the peasantry as a...
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C'mon... Anyone?C'mon... Anyone?
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Marxism and the PeasantryHow did Marx think that the revolutionary proletariat should deal with the peasantry, or the remnant of the peasantry? Did he think that the proletarian led state ("dictatorship of the proletariat")...
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The Withering Away of the StateRegarding this passage from Engels' Anti-Durhing:
Does it mean that the state, as an administrative organization, remains in operation after the "withering away" of the state? Does the...
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Are you saying that Marx didn't advocate seizing...Are you saying that Marx didn't advocate seizing the state first?
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penguinfoot: Thank you, but I'll have to read...penguinfoot: Thank you, but I'll have to read that later.
Does "the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things" mean that after classes have ceased to exist, the...
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The "withering away" of the stateWhat does the "withering away" of the state (according to Marxism mean)?
Do state institutions cease to exist, or do they continue to operate but they simply lose their "political character", i.e....
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But how did his view of the state CHANGE? I.e.,...But how did his view of the state CHANGE? I.e., what was it before that it was not any more?
Did he think that the working class COULD simply take over the existing state-machinery, for example,...
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Did Marx change his views after the events of the Commune?Did Marx change his views after the events of the Parisian Commune? If so, how?
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