/marx/ - Marxism

Is this board a ghost town?

>>393

Some differences compared to other forms of socialism is that Marxism takes a scientific approach, seeking to explain the laws by which human societies and classes develop and then attempting to control those laws. It is scientific socialism.

It is unique in that it uses the philosophy of dialectical materialism, which is legit.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm

>>395

Really? Which communist state was that?

>Higher wages. But nothing to buy.
>Gulags. Do they have safety requirements?
>Paid holidays? What holidays? You secularist bastards.
>Sick leave. You're sick? Into the mass grave with you.
>More? No thanks.

>>1300
Certainly more to buy than in 1917.

Pretty sure gulags do not count as standard workplaces, but a number of them were actually quite generous, a number of Western visitors said as much when observing them in the 1920s-30s.

To quote the Great Soviet Encyclopedia: "a day commemorating an outstanding event or traditional date. In the USSR, work is halted at all enterprises, institutions, and organizations on the following holidays: January 1, New Year’s Day; March 8, International Women’s Day; May 1 and 2, International Workers’ Solidarity Day; May 9, Victory Day; November 7 and 8, the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution; and October 7, Constitution Day of the USSR."

And lol no, provisions for those who were sick or unable to work were quite generous.

>>395
away with you, reformist animal!

>>393
Society is chained to capital and the merit of all things therein, we demand the capacity to create value for our own life according to criteria beneficial to the circumstances of human life. Marxism offers us the view to the structural inconsistancies in capitalism which will lead to it's inevitable downfall. We can accelerate or retard the processes.

>>1322
So you want to do away with the meritocracy that we have now to live out your delusions? Sounds promising.

>>1379

>meritocracy

It's only a meritocracy if you define merit as financial success. So if being a cutthroat exploiter or usurer and submitting to greed is deserving of merit, then sure.

Why don't we create a meritocracy where what is considered deserving of merit is instead contributions to humanity?

But you said "muh delusions" so you're probably just another sleeping sheep anyway.

>>1379
>meritocracy we have now
>your delusions

So merit in your mind is inseparable from it's ability to generate further capital from the investments of the capitalist class and the wages of the proletariat then? This assumes merit is defined by revenue and is subject to either the fallacy that merit is what is judged my the majority or that the bourgeois have some sense of philanthropic merit as their criteria for what is profitable, as opposed to what has proven to be profitable.