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man, people really need to learn more about the 19th century socialist movement https://twitter.com/comradebubbly/status/1255559566982631425
So much of how people talk about Marx in his own time falls into this trap of retelling from the vantage point of knowing that someone ultimately became more influential, thus reimagining them as your historical protagonist when at the time they were actually quite marginal!
Marx did not invent socialism, he was not the only socialist around at his time, and most of what are today considered his core ideas were plucked from other socialist thinkers of his time and tweaked to his liking.
I happen to think that a number of his unique insights are very helpful for our thinking as socialists, and also that elevating him as the One Defining Thinker who is the foundation of all socialist thought is immensely *detrimental* to our thinking as socialists.
It's like it simply does not occur to them that it is possible to read something and not be persuaded by it! This bizarre hybrid of intellectual narcissism and intellectual deference is just astounding, and it seems to be almost everywhere in Marxism as a political identity.
lol
The Communards? LIBERALS. The Socialist Revolutionaries? LIBERALS. The Zapatistas? LIBERALS.
I don't even know what to say, this is all just so embarrassing to witness
