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[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Well if they actually read the books, they probably wouldn't be Marxists because they'd be forced to encounter the (wrong) Labour Theory of Value. That's how I left the left!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd wage my life savings on the fact that if this nerd read a book, it was by someone who claims to have read Marx (but never really did) and disproves his theories based on vibes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

as a former turbo lib, I sincerely believe they looked at the words with their eyes, but never actually engaged with the text.

The first time I read Marx as a teenager hopped up on Western liberal triumphalism, I treated Capital like Mein Kampf and was prepared to scoff at every paragraph, but Marx writes such turgid fucking sentences that I gave up after a couple pages because I couldn't understand what he was saying well enough to get my rocks off.