People like to imply Marx was some sort of evil Machiavelli…

Twetch · April 2, 2020

People like to imply Marx was some sort of evil Machiavellian mastermind, but the reality is he was much more likely just a fat dummy.

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Twetch · April 22, 2020

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism Marx was a narcissist who could trick people into believing that he was a genius, rather like L. Ron Hubbard.

Twetch · April 22, 2020

I guess everything really IS sales!

Twetch · April 22, 2020

He was a product of his time and his writings made sense during the exploitation stage of the industrial revolution.

Only with hindsight we see he was totally wrong.

Twetch · April 23, 2020

Imagine narcissism being a mostly unconscious motivation scheme