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"Marxism is a white and eurocentric ideology" (lemmy.ml)
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[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think it's Kwame Ture who said something like Marx didn't invent dialectical materialism he discovered it/described it, just like Newton didn't invent gravity.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Marx also thought that he was a discoverer, not inventor of his ideas:

And now as to myself, no credit is due to me for discovering the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. Long before me bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this class struggle and bourgeois economists, the economic anatomy of classes. What I did that was new was to prove: (1) that the existence of classes is only bound up with the particular, historical phases in the development of production, (2) that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat, (3) that this dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Marx also said that he build on centuries of materialist philosophy, which has its origin in ancient egypt. Its like saying röntgen radiation is fake because a hwite man discovered it.