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Re: George Soros Funded Journalist: "The coronavirus crisis shows it's time to abolish the family"
Well, Marx has been misused by leaders ever since he wrote the Commie Manifesto. Much like Nietzche, his ideas were twisted around to make him sound like the monster goading on other monsters. Nothing could be further from the truth but you are right in that Marxism as it was practiced by the Bolsheviks and Chinese was horrible. But then, so was capitalism if you were a native american or slave. When I think of Marx, I do not think of communism, I think about his observations of capitalism, capital, labor and the human condition for the vast majority of workers in the mid-1800s. I have no clue what this site is about but have listened to Soros speak many times. He is no Marxist or communist or Nazi. He is a capitalist and everything I have heard him say shows me that he is also a humanitarian.
Marx open supported dissolution of the family. In his view, families were an archaic institution that only served to carry forward tribalism, superstition, defunct traditions, and self-interest. He believed the better society would divorce each child from his/her parents to be educated by the state for the common good.
Many of the early practices of early communism came directly out of his theories. His theories about the family are no exception. Following the revolution, men and women were taken out of their homes and sent to work long hours in factories while their children were indoctrinated by the state. It's not an exaggeration to say that this and other pillars of communist thinking destroyed Russian society in the span of two generations.
Karl Marx was an intelligent and highly educated man, but his ideas about race, family, and proper governance are the stuff of dystopian nightmares. Anyone with an objective and thorough view of his ideas put into practice should understand this. No excuses.
As for Mr. Soros, presuming he doesn't support communism, he definitely should not support neo-communist blogs like this openDemocracy.net. I don't expect him to know where every cent of his money goes, but if it's funding openly pro-communist publications, it's his responsibility to know this. Hopefully he'll pull funding from this one.
Well, Marx has been misused by leaders ever since he wrote the Commie Manifesto. Much like Nietzche, his ideas were twisted around to make him sound like the monster goading on other monsters. Nothing could be further from the truth but you are right in that Marxism as it was practiced by the Bolsheviks and Chinese was horrible. But then, so was capitalism if you were a native american or slave. When I think of Marx, I do not think of communism, I think about his observations of capitalism, capital, labor and the human condition for the vast majority of workers in the mid-1800s. I have no clue what this site is about but have listened to Soros speak many times. He is no Marxist or communist or Nazi. He is a capitalist and everything I have heard him say shows me that he is also a humanitarian.