Ugh.

Soul-crushing in its hatred of human nature, and irritating in its misconstruing of economic maxims. Beginning with a vast oversimplification of Adam Smith's theory of value, Marx proceeds to describe, for ants, bees and other insectile collectivists, the kind of economics he wishes had evolved among humans. He then offers--via a distortion of the Hegelian dialectic, which is itself a distortion of logic--a historicist, "scientific" account of how the "proletariat" will inevitably rise and take control of the world.

Conspiratorial, ignorant, brutally authoritarian. Bring antidepressants.

[–] Homestar440@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know, maybe I'm just in a weird mood, but this review made me happy. It's just so garbage, starting strong with human nature, going on to say that his bit about the ants and bees (literally in the first few pages) is what he thinks society should be like, and peppered with unnecessarily large words that nonetheless still leaves his criticism utterly vague and superficial. FeelsVindicatedMan

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Big "I skimmed the first 30 pages" energy from this one.

[–] ikiru@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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