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INVASION_OF_THE_MARXOIDS

                                             October 1, 2013

Like most everyone else, including
most Marxists, I have a lower
opinion of Marxists than Marx.

They often seem like a species
of religious fanatics.                             Or, perhaps I'm wrong,
                                                   and somewhere in the
   One of the problems with the later-day          myriad Marx descendants
   punk culture is they got co-opted by            and variants that I'm
   the Marxists.                                   unfamiliar with, there's
                                                   someone with a unique
                                                   insight into the human
                                                   condition.
That Marx got some things right,
and/or said some interesting                          But you know:
things is important for the
history of ideas.                                     Yes, the Koch Brothers
                                                      are out to get us,
That there's something critically important           and they're playing
about seeing things through a Marxist lens,           the tea party nut jobs
and tying everything back to the "sacred              like musical instruments.
texts" is far less clear.                             I need a "class-based
                                                      analysis" to grasp this?
There seems to be an either/or fallacy going
on in some circles, at least: the current                         CLASS_WAR
state of the world, which we might call
capitalist, has it's problems, therefore the       CAPITALISMS
only answer is...


   MARXIST_REVIVAL
   THE_NEW_INTELLECTUALS
   NEITHER




      Another angle of attack is to start
      with our version of capitalism and
      look for hacks to improve it.

         Layers of regulation.
         Pigovian taxes.
         Tweaks in "intellectual property" laws.

      Some artificial dis-economies of scale
      might be interesting... I bet they'd
      be really popular, if tried.



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