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Actual criticism of marxism? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Has anyone in history made some valid criticism against Marxist ideology? And I'm not talking about the CIA propaganda no iPhone vuvuzela shit. But like, someone must've made some good point somewhere along the line?

I don't want this to be a bash marxism thread. Just curious. Debates with people usually tend to incorporate the usual stuff that can be debunked easily.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

IMO there aren't any genuine criticisms of the main points in Marxism... as Che alluded to, the things Marx+Engels discovered are as fundamental to the political and social sciences as Newton's discoveries are to physics.

The criticisms that are genuine, point out the areas that Marx and Engels glossed over, or didn't pay as much attention to. No matter really, since Marxism is a science, and later Marxists have and are filling in these gaps. Leninism added on a more thorough understanding of imperialism, and corrected the forgiveable error of Marx assuming that capitalism would break in its birthplaces in Europe.

A few of these are IMO, are women's oppression, imperialism, dependency theory, divisions between rich and poor countries, labor aristocracy theory, settler-colonialism, racial oppression, the development of market economies to build socialism, etc.