I started you off on Marx last time and I am continuing today with thoughts on what I took away from reading Marx and why that makes it worth your while, too.
It is always difficult, to approach someone as divisive as Karl Marx with an open mind and not to judge either good or bad beforehand. Not because judging itself was bad, it is not, or unnecessary, it is. But I always feel that I gain most by stepping back first and appreciating the text in its ambivalence – and than using that to judge and act appropriately. I feel those who want to rush to the inevitable conclusion, namely, that capitalism is bad and the root of all evil.
Looking at the early Marx, however, gives us more. A compelling reason WHY that might be so and hence a new look at what might work against it.
I guess, I have given away where I stand. You go and find your own standpoint.
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