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>Right now it is, according to the communists, the employers that oppresses the employees. Yes, all employers excersise oppression, and all employees are being oppressed.
I know this sounds weird to you because it IS weird, Marx’s theories hardly apply anymore to modern day society. But you have to understand the times in which he lived. In Manchester he saw people having to work for 16 hours a day and earning just enough money to survive. He made the distinction between the property-owners and the property-less because that is what it was. The bourgeoisie had everything while the proletariat had nothing (it was all spent on primary needs).
This simply doesn’t apply anymore and if Marx was born now he would probably have never come up with his theory.
>The first, and least dangerous, is that the economical theories are wrong, which ensures that the economical politics Marx proposes constantly lead to economical collapse. The theories have not been created in an attempt to correctly describe economy or predict economical events (they are, in fact, completely useless for that). The theories have instead been created with solely one purpose: To create something that could give what looks like a scientific foundation for the historical theories.
Yes, it’s true but hey, it’s the 19th century, economics as a science had hardly even started.
>The other, and more dangerous, is that Marxism says that the workers shall take the power in a violent revolution and shall oppress others in what he calls the dictatorship of the proletariat. Communism's goal is to create a society where people are being oppressed.
This is nonsense, he has never said anything like “the dictatorship of the proletariat” the closest he gets is “the proletariat will be raised to the ruling class”. There is never anything said about oppression (although what is supposed to happen with the bourgeoisie is unclear) and the state in no way is meant to oppress the people. The representatives are democratically chosen since every worked was helping with the revolution anyway (no, this
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