Reddit mentions of Marx for Beginners

This is very informative, but mostly, highly entertaining.

>Only the products that work sell, because they work.

How does one know they don't work until they are already sold? I realize defenders of capitalism, such as yourself, have such a low standard of quality. If it's shiny it works for me! Both Brian and Dave know that they can both exploit the customers, so the choice is really which product looks like it will last longer and looks like it will do what it claims.


>You should have the freedom to choose your purchases, ignorance is not a valid excuse.


How about the truth being manipulated by the seller? And the not-so-independent reviewers? I'm sure you think you are above these things, but how would you know?


>There is no debating that competition drives innovation.


First, it's not the best or only way. Second it leads to false innovation: things that are not needed or wanted until the consumer is manipulated by commercialism, and things that don't solve the problem they claim to. Kinda of changes the rate in communism's favor, I'd say.



>And the fact of the matter is the system IS working for me,


You don't sound like a person who feels good about himself, just my perception.


> I've seen first hand how the free market expands the middle class more than socialism ever can, and how socialist policies mixed with a free market economy keep the poor on the bottom.


I'm not familiar with any of these circumstances. Has the free market ever existed? Where has socialism existed long enough(before being suppressed by those capitalists) to gather any data? And I am not advocating "socialist policies", that is a misnomer.


> You completely skipped over my comment about the Clinton era leading to the house bubble.




If you think anything any US president has ever done has anything to do with communism or socialism, you should educate yourself what these things are.


>You can not compete with the World economy under communism. You can not save the poor under socialism. You can not multiply, by division.
We will never evolve to your ideal because it is an impossible one.



These are opinions, not backed by anything but old scare tactics to keep you feeding the 1%.



>Then one day, everyone's house was getting foreclosed.


That's a capitalist problem, with cooperation from a government owned by these same capitalists. Why do you think this has anything to do with communism?


> As I looked further into why, it was apparent I was being fed bull shit my entire life,...


What the hell did FOX tell you?







I hope you are reading other posts in this subreddit and can get your misconceptions cleared up. Here's a thin book that can help you understand, as well.



Good wishes!