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irishgit (151)
04/16/2008

A book that is frequently demonized and usually by people who not only haven't read it but couldn't if they tried.

Which, perhaps, is only fair, since the same can be said of many avowed Marxists.

It's fairly turgid prose, not surprising for an economics treatise, but contains some interesting observations on the condensation of capital.

It is no more a blueprint for revolution than Milton Friedman's "A Monetary Theory of National Income" is.


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GenghisTheHun (177)
05/31/2007
The world is divided into two parts. The first part knows that man is a savage animal and as the Christians note, a fallen person.

The second part is those who believe that man is inherently good and you just have to give humanity its free reign and everything is going to be fine.

The Marxists are in the second part. Reality is in the first part.

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ILikePie (55)
05/31/2007
The ideals of Marx weren't really 'harmless', as one of the stages of his plan was a bloody revolution. It was "necessary"... I think Marx had the best intentions in mind, but the ideals were somewhat naive (as they were 'ideals', I suppose...), but the implementation of this, and the Communist/Bolshevik manipulation of these plans were most destructive, and extremely harmful, on a 'millions dead' scale...

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numbah16tdhaha (156)
03/04/2007
The ideas in this book are not nearly as harmful as the way in which they were misused.

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Djahuti (57)
05/23/2006
No book is "harmful" to anyone,unless you are LITERALLY hit in the head with a Hardcover of it.(Pun intended)

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Drummond (60)
12/27/2005
It's hardly a manifesto, and actually contains much of value to scholars about the consequences of the condensation of capital and the declining rate of profit. Perhaps you're thinking about the Communist Manifesto, much more widely read.

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Jed1000 (74)
08/19/2005
Viewed only on its own merits and seen simply as one man's opinion it would not have been harmful at all. However, it became harmful when it was used as the raionale for an extremely flawed socio-economic political philosohpy that resulted in decades of repression, murder, and mayhem at the hands of the Communist party.

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