• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    I know it’s fake because Marx had a deeply eurocentric world view. He thought the revolution must start in the most “progressive” part of the world which for him was the west

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      5 hours ago

      The best thing about that is that “the west” is such a nonsensical designation for a location on a globe.

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      6 hours ago

      Kind of, but his later works indicate he had developed a slightly more nuanced view than the thought experiments and basically meme understanding of non-european cultures that his earlier works inherit from Smith and others.