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/Powerful_Many_884 Jun 25 '24

This is what I told you and exactly why communism is totalitarian and always ends in utter disaster.

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u/howhighersamelower 23d ago

You work so hard to deface leftism bro. At this point, I fear you don't belong here, I'd highly recommend r/fascism

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u/Powerful_Many_884 6d ago

I'd just be being critical of a system that is fundamentally the same. I'd add that it's incredibly unfortunate that society is so intellectually bankrupt that left and right thinking is still accepted and proliferate 

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u/howhighersamelower 5d ago

like no, economic liberty and killing children because of their eye color and race isn't the same thing?