I don't recall exactly who it was, but on your Facebook page, I tried to clarify this confusion about Marx vs the people who stole his name and false claimed the were following him (thus causing your reader to say Marx's ideas were personally responsible for the millions of deaths that occurred under Stalin's rule.
It ended up that your reader claimed it was Marx alone who inspired totalitarian leaders to seek absolute power, because Marx allegedly claimed this was necessary to "overthrow capitalism."
When I suggested that Pinochet also wanted absolute power, tortured and killed tens of thousands in order to establish a form of vulture or crony or fascist capitalism, what answer did I get?
Both Marx and Nietzsche are very misunderstood and at times used against each other. Hitler used Nietzsche because he was fighting Marxism, Stalin was using Marx because he was fighting Capitalism.
Couldn't have said it better or more clearly.
I don't recall exactly who it was, but on your Facebook page, I tried to clarify this confusion about Marx vs the people who stole his name and false claimed the were following him (thus causing your reader to say Marx's ideas were personally responsible for the millions of deaths that occurred under Stalin's rule.
It ended up that your reader claimed it was Marx alone who inspired totalitarian leaders to seek absolute power, because Marx allegedly claimed this was necessary to "overthrow capitalism."
When I suggested that Pinochet also wanted absolute power, tortured and killed tens of thousands in order to establish a form of vulture or crony or fascist capitalism, what answer did I get?
Crickets.
Well done, Eric. A very important theme.
Great thoughts, Don. Thanks!
Both Marx and Nietzsche are very misunderstood and at times used against each other. Hitler used Nietzsche because he was fighting Marxism, Stalin was using Marx because he was fighting Capitalism.