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  • Andrew PowersApr 7, 2015 at 12:12 pm

    I’m presently surprised to find someone well read in the works of Karl Marx. admittedly I haven’t read The German Ideology (I now plan to) Ive only read his collaboration with Eangles, The communist manifesto. Too many people refuse to read Marx’s work due to his being a communist, but regardless of your economic/political views anyone who reads his work can find wisdom. Much like despite being a catholic im sure I would being a wiser fuller person after reading the Qur’an. But im neglecting the topic at hand.If you look you will find that the monarchs and political and military elite of Europe were all relatives or friends. There are unconfirmed stories of A Russian and a German general playing chess by mail while the soldiers under their command bled in the fields.

  • Andrew PowersMar 26, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    Joining WW1 on the allied side was one of the worst thing the United states has ever done. Yes u-boats sank our ships but they only did so in areas where the German government had told everybody if you come here we will sink you, a testament to American stupidity and false neutrality we went to those places anyway. The British made a similar statement about sinking ships in the area around Germany northwestern coast and the American didn’t go into these areas. The British were our largest trade rivals and we also competed for naval supremacy so to ally with them would be and was a foolish decision. As to the Zimmerman telegram these sorts of deals were incredibly common everybody was asking everybody about forming an alliance against someone else. the reason we joined the Allied side was not for freedom or democracy or world peace or any of that nonsense no we joined purely out of capitalistic self interest. The rich people who owned the factories making helmets and artillery shells and whatnot had been selling huge amounts of these things(food was another big thing we sold them) to the Allies who mostly paid with credit. If we had joined the central powers the Allies would not have paid these rich people. the rich people knew this and thus used their vast wealth and influence to make sure we joined the Allies

    • oceanmtnskyMar 26, 2015 at 1:10 pm

      This theory makes me think of Karl Marx who said, “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.” (From “The German Ideology,” 1845)

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