Alex Weston (he/him) on Nostr: Reading a biography of Karl Marx, and finding that he spent WAYYYY more time and ...
Reading a biography of Karl Marx, and finding that he spent WAYYYY more time and energy getting into petty flame wars and trash talking other communists and socialists than he ever did developing his own ideas or critiquing capitalism.
Which is somehow both depressing and oddly reassuring that Leftists have apparently always been this way.
#Marx #leftists #philosophy
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