Where did Marx go wrong?

At the risk of simplifying: Marx erred in his view of human nature. Marx saw humans as having a nature that is social and productive. Various forms of impoverished economic and social life could corrupt this nature, with capitalism being the latest and the greatest of the corrupters. For instance, capitalism has the power to turn naturally productive humans into unproductive proletarians who are productive only through coercion (e.g.. through the threat of unemployment). Capitalism also has the power to turn naturally sociable humans anti-social, which is expressed in a variety of forms of conflict and violence.

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Posted by yasch  on  11/03  at  06:24 AM

while discribing the humen nature u claimed humen nature both as productive and non-productive your view are self controdictary therefore if we dont have any idea about the basic humen nature we cannot predict as which system is suitable to his nature.

Posted by Dennis  on  11/27  at  02:34 PM

nice written

Posted by William (Bill) Turner  on  03/20  at  10:23 AM

Im Doing a Masters at Charles Sturt University Australia. I have a quesiton. Marxism, communism, and socialism governments have fallen and fall again and again and they are still falling today. The lesson here, is that the version of Marxism "False Consciousness" or that communism version pitched by them has failed when audited by its own people. Meanwhile Marxist thologins state "How capitalist - conservative hegemony tends to hold sway even in the theoretically open societies of contemporary democracies is a question that continued to preoccupy Marxists"

So even Marxists couldn't understand why people accepted western a version of 'false consciousness' while history proved 'the people' rejected Marxist authored 'false consciousness'. Do you put this down to governments implementaiton, or as you suggest, do you think it is a more fundamental flaw as you put it of Marx being "dead wrong"?

If as you say (and I agree) our contradictory human nature provides a natural need for capitalism (policing needed in every community) as a self serving motivator, to work and behave, how could Marxism ever have its day?

Bill

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