06-16-2011, 04:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-16-2011, 05:22 AM by FireIceTalon.)
Yea the paper is long, but truth be told, I had a hard time keeping it to only 10 pages. I would have gone well over the limit, but this particular professor is very strict about what he is looking for, so I had to leave out a bunch of things I would have like to discuss. I enjoy writing about this stuff, afterall its why Im a poli sci major! I cannot see myself doing anything else but something related to politics, be it writing about contemporary affairs, political theory, analyzing data and patterns related to specific political and economic systems or even being directly involved in politics itself (though this is unlikely since I love politics but generally dislike politicians, go figure).
I see what you are getting at with the bacon. You want to have a choice. If I could wave my magic wand and turn the entire world into a Marxist society, have no fear, you would still have a choice on which bacon to buy, and just about everything else
I think at the end of the day my ultiimate point on Marxism is that it is not the evil system it is made out to be, nor are Marxist junkies like myself the evil, controlling demons we are made out to be. Truth be told, in terms of practicality, Im probably more Rawlsian than Marxist, and I think Rawls' theory is more relevant to society now overall. From a moral standpoint though, what Marx seek to achieve was nothing short of brilliant and ultimately I think the intentions behind his theories are for the good of civil society. The man was a genius and his theories, practical or not, have a lot of truth to them. And it is most unfortunate that a few power hungry douche bags like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Kim Jon-Il have stigmatized his ideas. I guess I should have made it more clear in the beginning that I agree with Marx more on his critques of capitalism rather than I do on his advocation of communism (which because he never made a blueprint for it, and we have never seen put into practice in his theoretical context thus it is difficult for me to have a valid opinion on it). But I happen to be an altruist, which probably means im in the minority, but I think if we all were this way, humanity would be much better off. And I dont buy that we cant be this way because its not in our nature to be so. We can be this way, we just choose not to be. At least thats how I see it. If this is not possible, why so?
I see what you are getting at with the bacon. You want to have a choice. If I could wave my magic wand and turn the entire world into a Marxist society, have no fear, you would still have a choice on which bacon to buy, and just about everything else
I think at the end of the day my ultiimate point on Marxism is that it is not the evil system it is made out to be, nor are Marxist junkies like myself the evil, controlling demons we are made out to be. Truth be told, in terms of practicality, Im probably more Rawlsian than Marxist, and I think Rawls' theory is more relevant to society now overall. From a moral standpoint though, what Marx seek to achieve was nothing short of brilliant and ultimately I think the intentions behind his theories are for the good of civil society. The man was a genius and his theories, practical or not, have a lot of truth to them. And it is most unfortunate that a few power hungry douche bags like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Kim Jon-Il have stigmatized his ideas. I guess I should have made it more clear in the beginning that I agree with Marx more on his critques of capitalism rather than I do on his advocation of communism (which because he never made a blueprint for it, and we have never seen put into practice in his theoretical context thus it is difficult for me to have a valid opinion on it). But I happen to be an altruist, which probably means im in the minority, but I think if we all were this way, humanity would be much better off. And I dont buy that we cant be this way because its not in our nature to be so. We can be this way, we just choose not to be. At least thats how I see it. If this is not possible, why so?
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)