This is a great video that highlights the most important points of Karl Marx's revolutionary thinking about Capitalism; an often mis-understood thing that is the main mode of modern economic and financially relations between human beings, objects and our environment. Whether one buys a chocolate bar, a house or pays a cleaning lady to tidy up your house chances are your living in a capitalist world were all relations are distorted by money. Ever had that feeling that your friend would rather not buy you a sandwich but does so anyway Marx even addresses the social phenomena of human selfishness in relationships.
Before I watched this video I had no idea how radical Marx was! I never knew for instance that he thought unemployment was something to be recognised, celebrated even cherished as a glimpse into a possible positive future. A time were everyone doesn't have to work can choose what they want to do due to the main problem of capitalism; that is to affect at producing for its own good. It reminds me of a fact I heard years ago that Russia alone could possibly generate food for the whole population and steal have left-overs. Well, you certainly wouldn't think that looking at modern food prices. In New Zealand the main supermarket chain should really be called Count up not Countdown! could someone sue them for mis-information, now that would be funny.
Joking aside such pivotal parts of Marxism that the world is still abundant and how employment is unrealised social "Freedom" reminded myself of the lies churned out about Karl Marx, the prejudices clinging to the man and obsfucating his theories. The mass media and social conditioning to obey really does try to poison the virtue in Marixst philosophy and economics. One usually always hears the claim that Karl Marx wants to take away money from hard working individuals in society and re-distribute it to the undeserving poor and working class. The prevalence of the idea of 'money theft' associated with Marx no doubt compounded upon his Jewish heritage creates the horribly persistent idea that he is a mad communist hell bent on causing utter financial chaos. But does Marx really want to deny us the ability to survive through engaging in monotonous work, some ignorant people fiercely agree and argue his ideas jeopardise the simple transactions of buying food, paying our rent and generating a livelihood.
In reality Marx wants real financial order by turning away from the problems inbuilt to capitalism that actually threaten your ability to pay your mortgage, feed your family and find work. His great beard is not purely seeking the denial of other peoples rights to property, money, objects and other human beings for profitable exploitation due to envy and jealousy. Instead Marx genuinely wants improve the lives of everyone through reducing anxiety and giving us security. He was even perceptive enough to not that the rich are unhappy to as marriage at the top echelon is an investment not built on a foundation of love. Marx and his social theory is adamantly in favour of us following our passions and enjoying life without poverty and sadness. He's even trying to help us fix our personal relationships so we don't get put in the dog house whenever we subconsciously forget to by our lover flowers due to ingrained selfishness! To conclude Marx is only presented as a subversive immoral individual in history because he wants to restore the morality and human dignity to the selfish, lazy dis-enfranchised people throughout the world who are both rich and poor.
A Segway on Marx and Over-Abundance
p.s - If Karl Marx was fat could we read it as a personal affirmation that Capitalism aims to exploit us for no other reason but to feel guilt which controls our thinking so even when we are confronted with the access to over abundance, resources and enjoyment in the world we deny it to ourselves - e.g We know that there are a hundred cans of Coke in any store yet we must be punished in a way to enjoy just one can!
Is that we are indoctrinated into an ideology which demands that we are satisfied with the wage not the riches, the singular over the multiple, the subject over everyone! If one thinks about it from an early age in childhood we are forced year after year to share our Birthday cake with others? Is that truly just.
Would a Marxist Birthday in fact not be to share a piece of cake with everyone else but instead make sure that all our friends have the ability to bring a cake too. Is the answer to inequality to really reduce what we have, to improve the amount given to another person or instead improve what another person has removed from ourselves so we are not depleted and they are not beholden to us.
Surely it must be the case that autonomy is more important than egoist generosity. Dependence is what Marx wants to erudite from the world but not by means of a cynical hand out, more like a hand up to make your life your own!
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