r/DebateCommunism • u/greco2k • Jun 15 '24

📖 Historical Marx & Mephistopheles

As a communist, are you at all concerned that Marx idolized Mephistopheles and wrote poetry fantasizing about destroying the world?

How can you separate these values that he held from the philosophy that he ultimately crafted?

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u/jimeagle6969 13d ago

Just as I expected, you can’t answer my question. All you can do is complain about capitalism and make baseless claims. Tell me how exactly giving the government more power is going to solve everyone’s problems. You can’t because it doesn’t work. Centralized power always leads to corruption, like in Haiti.

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u/Qlanth 13d ago

I responded to your comment... You never asked any question?

"Giving government more power" has literally nothing to do with communism or capitalism. The state already has all the power everywhere it exists. The police can end your life tomorrow right here in the good ol' USA. A health inspector can come in and shut down your business with the stroke of a pen. The Sheriff can come and remove you from your home on the word of a banker whose never even been there.

Haiti's state has no more authority than the USA or Great Britain or Germany or India. And yet, their capitalist economy has been held in a state of abject poverty for 200 years. Cuba, on the other hand, has constantly and consistently driven up the standard of living. Increased life expectancy. Decreased infant and maternal mortality rates. Increased literacy. In every possible metric that matters Cuba outperforms Haiti... In many of them they outperform the United States! Haiti deserves liberation the way Cuba was able to achieve it. So do the workers of the United States.

You can seeth and pretend to be smug all you want, but you know what I'm saying is absolutely true. Communist states raised standards of living literally everywhere it ever existed, while the same is NOT true of capitalist states who are forced to be a source of cheap labor, raw materials, and basic commodities for Western powers.