Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Who's Afraid of Marx?" video.

I understand the point of the video, but the title is all kinds of misleading. Jesus didn't outline a very cogent view of how to get to heaven. He had like 2 rules and basically everything else was thought up by the organization around it which grew from his life and worship. Does that mean anyone who doesn't follow the Catholic church isn't a Christian? Catholics probably will say yes. You reading this, probably not. That's basically what defines a Marxist in the modern world Clearly, i do not believe it makes sense to be a Marxist in the current year. He gets it wrong from the get-go with surplus value and he'd know that had he even run a business and had to take in operating costs (Spolier, if the only thing into consideration for the price of a product was work done by the laborers, it could be a lot lower while the business still exists and everyone has a job), and fundamentally the relative theory of value works as a much better economic framework for understanding costs. Marxism is only attractive because it gives power to intellectuals who otherwise don't have it, and the industrialized world makes us feel like like tiny cogs in an unending machine taking away all power from us. With the decline in religion as well, it provides an attractive moral framework in its absence. It's not so much a useful tool but more of a popular trend from people who feel that something is wrong and giving them something to aim their anger at because the world is complicated and we like simple answers.
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