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RE: Marx, Marxism, and the Environment
many orthodox marxists exist today still, I have met them in my daily life irl, the term is still in much use. The problem is that inside capitalist circles they often ignore what is going around in the society around them.
Marx wrote little on revolution, I give the suggestion of reading the wikipedia article at the very least, for a reason. What's more I said write on the concept of marxism, which you also ignored. At the very inception of the soviet state, marxists anarchists and the rest of the left were split. You can't call them "marxist" and ignore the marxists that were against its very existence.
What? Marx wrote EXTENSIVELY on revolution (by the proletariat). It was one of his favorite topics of discussion, and something he was actively hoping for. Have you glanced at, say, his writings regarding the 1848 uprising? His letters to Engels were also absolutely filled with discussions of it. Marx literally and commonly wrote of the proletarian revolution as necessary and inevitable. Hell, he and Engels literally call for the "forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions" in the Communist Manifesto. This is like Marx 101.
And I've met quite a few Orthodox Marxists IRL too, even had a crush on one for a while. I never said they don't exist, so I'm utterly baffled as to why you brought that up. Likewise, I'm pretty baffled by the reference to capitalist circles- were you under the impression that I was one?
Why would I possibly be required to discuss every single group of Marxists, of which there were oh-so-many? For the purposes of this article, ignoring those who opposed the founding of the Soviet Union was perfectly fine, because their opposition failed, and it was founded, and had negative effects on the environment. I can perfectly well call both groups simply Marxists as well and be correct, or use Marxist to describe just one in a specific context and still be correct.
And accusing me of not writing on the concept of marxism- well, I interpreted that as giving me the freedom to discuss a variety of topics, so long as it interacted with the ideas of Marxism. My bad, I suppose.
But... again, your vocabulary test is merely a shibboleth test, not a test of ideas.
Marxism
Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation. It originates from the works of 19th century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Marxism uses a methodology, now known as historical materialism, to analyze and critique the development of capitalism and the role of class struggles in systemic economic change.
According to Marxian theory, class conflict arises in capitalist societies due to contradictions between the material interests of the oppressed proletariat—a class of wage labourers employed by the bourgeoisie to produce goods and services—and the bourgeoisie—the ruling class that owns the means of production and extract their wealth through appropriation of the surplus product (profit) produced by the proletariat.