Carl: Bingo, QED. Marx was 100 percent in the Old Testament tradition of a fire-and-brimstone-spouting prophet denouncing a corrupt society for refusing to honor the Golden Rule.
The irony, IMO, is that Marx succeeded mainly in adding a new type of alienation to the capitalist world. The very complexity of Marx's thought, though impressive as science, serves to reduce the transparency of capitalism's abominations.
Ultimately, I think Marx has done more than anyone else to disenfranchise the masses from their visceral outrage and slow the progress of socialism in the world.
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CB: Don't Lenin , the Bolsheviks, the Russian Revolution, and following revs , including those in Cuba and Venezuela, mean that ultimately Marx did not disenfranchise the masses from the visceral outrage, but rather gave effective expression of it ? More than anybody in recent history ?