Marx opposed profits. He also opposed God and good market practices. He was a moron when it came to understanding what makes economies great and the people who work in the market system more prosperous and content.
Moron? You clearly haven't read a single criticism he actually wrote of capitalism if you think he was a moron, and given your proclivity for religion and capitalist dogma, I can understand why you were shielded from the philosophical meanderings of a radical heathen like Marx.
Marx published a detailed and thought out criticism of capitalism. Tell me, if the right wing, yourself included, are all about the "battle of ideas", why is it that our best economists are never taught the primary criticism of the system in which we function? I thought this country was about debating issues and whoever has the best idea wins. Why is it our economists go through school without ever delving into Marxism?
Couldn't be indoctrination, no.
Let's look at Capitalism and some of the criticisms of it.
Boom-Bust cycles; the never ending result of capitalism's self consumption; overproduction is encouraged via these systems, the manufacturers need a market, so they abscond some of their profits to second hand middle men, who then sell wares for an inflated price to consumers. This means a worker is never actually paid their worth; they are paid just enough to ensure their productivity so the manufacturer and middle man make a profit; these cycles of feast and famine always adversely impact the workers first, who are laid off en masse.
This then leads to the famine cycle, where well paid workers who are now bereft of employment are now easy pickings in their desperation for carnivore capitalists, who will hire these desperate workers at far less pay, proliferating a downward cycle in wages and happiness.
Marx also said that capitalism represents the interests of the capitalist and the worker as one in the same but is dishonest; this -would- be true if employees had actual stake in a company, but given today's modern slave-wage earning class, this is hardly true. Capitalism represents the interests of those savvy enough to rig the game in their favor, the employees are simply an expense, and with so many billions of people on earth, a capitalists true desire is to engorge themselves with as much profit while paying as little as possible; this is true of the system and the proponents of the system.
Look at credit cards. Credit cards invent fake value; it's a way for the capitalist class to continue to profiteer off the backs of workers who have been systematically underpaid, undermined, and abused by the capitalist system.
The whole thing with Marx is this; Marx has been misrepresented, especially by the right wing; but also by those who would claim his mantle. Lenin said of Marx that the economic applications of Marxism were the most important, but I'd say the sociological views of Marx are what is important. A communist or Marxist economic structure has never actually been implemented in the way Marx envisioned.
One has to ignore completely the current economic situation in order to dismiss Marx as a clown or as a moron. We have systems now that will eradicate millions of laborers. We have efficient robots that will replace workers en masse. We have tech companies demolishing the need for customer service reps, etc.
This country is on the fast track to a purely electronic workforce in some of the largest sectors of the economy.
This benefits who? The capitalist. Not the worker. The worker is replaced by someone who needs no pay, no benefits, only the occasional repair; no breaks, no lunches, no vacation.
So what do we do about it? What is the capitalist answer to this?
There isn't one.
