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NOTE What is the Key to Marx?

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The key to Marx was, I discovered that I was trying to read through Marxism and was working on my book.

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I was trying to win a laugh and, you know, ten million words had been written on Marx and my Marx was all of that.

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I finally came to the conclusion that the key to Marx was a commie.

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Now, you might think this is a fairly trivial conclusion, but it isn't because I haven't read the Seoul book, which has been highly touted.

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I understand that he doesn't even mention the fact that Marx is a commie.

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This is a key. Tell us something about the book.

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Marx starts as a millenarian communist, atheist version, and then he tries to find the handle.

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He doesn't want, he's not interested in convincing people and all the rest of it.

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He wants to find, come to the conclusion it's inevitable.

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It's probably nature of the credo, whatever, it's going to come inevitably.

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And that's the so-called scientific aspect, scientific socialism against utopia.

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It's scientific, quote-unquote, because the inevitable laws of history, the credo will

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come about.

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And morality then becomes swinging in the inevitable.

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The moral, it's not that Marx was anti-morality, it was that he favored that the moral meant anything which furthered the communist revolution, inevitable revolution, and the immoral is that which blocks it, or stops it, or restrains it, I should say.

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So the idea of mankind to help the lonely and the inevitable is that Marx's famous metaphor had become the midwife of history.

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As Alexander Gray points out, a lot of us skeptical metaphors in Marx.

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So, Marsh starts off as a commie, then he tries to find the handle of how and why it's inevitable and what's going to come of that, and the handle consists of an integration, a very interesting integration, of Hegelian, the alienation stuff, he starts off in life as a left-Hegelian, the dialectic alienation and the rest of it, and later on trying to find the economic analytics of the class struggle and alienation and class conflict and proletariat and class conflict, and then when the class conflict stage, why was capitalism inevitably

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Emergence in the Socialist Revolution, Communist Revolution, and then Reliever Theory of Value

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comes in very late in this thing as part of a handling theory of crisis and all that,

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the impoverishment of the proletariat, to show why it is that the proletariat will rise

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up and smash the capitalist class.

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One thing, the capitalists become fewer and fewer, and the workers become larger and larger,

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and it becomes fairly easy to do it.

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So the key was that he was a communist, and his vision was, how do you achieve ultimate

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communism?

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and Humanism.