Was Karl Marx right?

Karl Marx remains surprisingly relevant 200 years after his birth. He rightly predicted some of the pitfalls of capitalism, but his solution was far worse than the disease.

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[thegoodspringguy]

The real question is why would anyone think the economist would do a fair review of Marx.

[karma_kar]

Can't wait for The Economist to make a review on my work
- Marx

[erlikquadros]

Marx never said the wealth should be equally distributed, he said workers should keep the surplus value of their work.

[citywok]

“He who doesn’t read the newspaper is uninformed. He who reads the the newspaper is misinformed “-Mark Twain

[RPclone]

when you put it in the way saying communism slaughtered millions, you should remind that capitalism also slaughtered millions.

[TH-eldr]

During the American Civil War, the Economist magazine/paper supported the South (fighting to keep slaves) while Marx supported the Union…

[Thomas-rsiw]

“Oh shit was the deadline for the Marx video today?” -Economist writer

[zooms]

"The Economist, a journal that speaks for the British millionaires."

-Vladimir Lenin

[petergriffin]

Glad so many people are voicing their opposition to this video

[michaelbradley]

Capitalist societies don’t Redistribute wealth through taxes. We take tax money and hand it to the people who need it the least in America.

[dielfonelletab]

maybe you could disagree with Marx's proposed solution to capitalism, but you can hardly dispute his critiques.

[hakimibnobaydah]

yes. I am gonna trust "the economist" to tell me about marx in 3 minutes instead of reading his works

[robertb]

Marx definitely did NOT say he thought wealth *should* be divided up *equally.* I don't think he just said take the wealth and divide it by the population. I think what he was saying is the means of production would be owned collectively and everyone would get what they needed. Now of course in a highly technological society a lot more than basic needs would be possible, but certainly nobody would go without. I sometimes think the Welfare State is well on its way toward that, where nobody would ever fall below a certain level while humanity reached great heights. The bigger problem might be how collective ownership achieves this in mass technological society, so to this point we have markets and taxes and worker protections.

[Saxpunch]

I’ve not even watched this yet but I am absolutely certain that this question that continues to be asked around the world for over a century is capable of being fairly explained and addressed in just over three minutes of a YouTube video

[gargapurv]

Seems like some high school student did some research on Karl Marx

[ChungusLover-rewh]

terrible oversimplification of marx that leaves out class struggle, possibly the most important aspect of marxism.

[thefbiman]

"He was completely right, but he's wrong because 2 superpowers got corrupt for relying too much on old power structures (something he literally warns about)"
-the Economist

[isthissomesortofmeme]

Just read his book
i wouldnt trust anyone to explain to me in 3 minutes

[viktorasrousis]

Wow The Economist is talking about Karl Marx I'm sure it's gonna be an objective analysis of socialism

[henryberrylowry]

It would Help If one read Marx before doing a report on His theory.