[B0ycey]

Marx was an economist, not all that different from his contemporaries, like Adam Smith. The dictatorial bureaucracy that you are calling communism would have horrified him. I'm not playing the advocate here, just pointing out that you have oversimplified the situation.

Wow Late where have you came from. Finally someone who knows what Marx was. He was also a philosopher too but I always associated him as an economist as really that was where his best work lay.

Also, did you know he was commissioned to write the Communist Manifesto rather than publishing it as a movement and although he was associated with the Communists I have doubts whether revolution was his aim to achieve that objective as no such mention of it made it to Das Kapital. Anyway I have enjoyed your posts and want you to know I think you're a great asset on PoFo and seem knowledgable on a number of subjects.

[late]

Wow Late where have you came from. Finally someone who knows what Marx was. He was also a philosopher too but I always associated him as an economist as really that was where his best work lay.

Also, did you know he was commissioned to write the Communist Manifesto rather than publishing it as a movement and although he was associated with the Communists I have doubts whether revolution was his aim to achieve that objective as no such mention of it made it to Das Kapital. Anyway I have enjoyed your posts and want you to know I think you're a great asset on PoFo and seem knowledgeable on a number of subjects.

Thanks.

My interest in Marx is tangential, so I didn't know about those things you mentioned. My interest is economic history, primarily the evolution of capitalism.

What a lot of people don't realise is that a great number of Brit intellectuals of that era, from Adam Smith to Marx to Charles Dickens saw the need to reform capitalism in some way to mitigate the damage it was doing. Even fewer know just how bad it was.

[late]

Not in technical or scientific matters, where definition determines usage.

Which only works if we know which discipline, and which definition, you are using.