Discuss.
Marx and Engels were hardcore white supremacists
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Evidence?
Marx and Engels believed modes of technology were inherent to racial groups.
https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/44504342/Marx_and_Engels_s_theory_of_history_making_sense_of_the_race_factor.pdfMarx and Engels believed that there were 'revolutionary races' and 'reactionary races' as a matter of genetic heritage. They arguably called for genocide against the groups they perceived as reactionary races:
https://www.reddit.com/r/russia/comments/7bbk13/karl_marx_and_friedrich_engels_about_the/The racialism of Hitler and that of Engels differed primarily in what they respectively perceived as racial ideal among European types.
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Racialism is the core foundation of Marxism. One cannot truly be a Marxist without being a scientific racialist, because scientific racialism is too intrinsic and essential to the original Marxist ideology, even if that is almost entirely unknown in present day. It would be like denying the existence of economic classes and then calling yourself a Marxist.
Marxism means scientific socialism. Marxists cannot reject science. 21st century science proves the existence of differentiated races with unique behavioral qualities, validating Marx and Engels in terms of their racial worldview regarding technology and modes of production.
Chinese Marxists today are of course all racialists, and the evolutionary biologists in China do not deny the existence of race at all -- they might even go further into hardcore racialism today than white Europeans ever did in the 19th/early 20th century.
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Racialism is the core foundation of Marxism. One cannot truly be a Marxist without being a scientific racialist, because scientific racialism is too intrinsic and essential to the original Marxist ideology, even if that is almost entirely unknown in present day. It would be like denying the existence of economic classes and then calling yourself a Marxist.
Marxism means scientific socialism. Marxists cannot reject science. 21st century science proves the existence of differentiated races with unique behavioral qualities, validating Marx and Engels in terms of their racial worldview regarding technology and modes of production.
Chinese Marxists today are of course all racialists, and the evolutionary biologists in China do not deny the existence of race at all -- they might even go further into hardcore racialism today than white Europeans ever did in the 19th/early 20th century.Sounds like someone who has never read Marx and never been to China. Do you also consider China Marxist?
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Sounds like someone who has never read Marx and never been to China. Do you also consider China Marxist?
I've read almost the entire complete works of Marx. Nothing in Marx/Engels could be described as "anti-racist" and their writings in total demonstrate their racism and racialism.
I have indeed never been to China. Have you?
The Chinese government self-identifies as Marxist and is one of only several governments in the world that does so in the present historical period. -
Also, I doubt you have read "nearly the entire works of Marx" and thinking that the Chinese government is even remotely "Marxist" is evidence of this.
Explain in your own words why the Chinese government should not be considered Marxist, detailing why you think their self-descriptions are false. Specifically get into the works of Deng and Xi. Bonus points if you can contrast Maoism and Dengism and argue whether one is more "Marxist" than the other, based on the writings of Marx.
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Sounds like someone who has never read Marx and never been to China. Do you also consider China Marxist?
I've read almost the entire complete works of Marx. Nothing in Marx/Engels could be described as "anti-racist" and their writings in total demonstrate their racism and racialism.
I have indeed never been to China. Have you?
The Chinese government self-identifies as Marxist and is one of only several governments in the world that does so in the present historical period.Yes, China is my other home. Half of my family is Chinese. I didn’t call Marx anti-racist. It doesn’t follow that racialism is the core. Straw man.
The government of China indee identified as Marxist (Marxist-Leninist specifically). But they also identify as “socialist with Chinese characteristics,” and this is in direct response to questions about them abandoning Marxist principles. Since Deng Xiaoping, China has heavily marketized. This is similar to the Doi Moi reforms of Vietnam and like North Korea’s jangmadangs gone institutionalized. The question for economists is, did china lift people out of poverty by direct virtue of embracing capitalism, or was it earlier socialist foundations critical?
But this is very basic level. The marketization of the communist world isn’t controversial. This is in part why we have the word “post communist” to describe nations outside the former Soviet world.