The meaning of Marxist?
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Marx really had nothing much to do with human rights. he argued for the "dictatorship of the proletariat", but don't take that as a sign that he favoured totalitarianism. in fact, Marx thought that democracy was the best form of government.
Marx was an economist, not really a philosopher or firebrand. you're not going to find much on his views of human rights.
@Jorge: You are wrong if you think that the United States is the most socialist country in the world. How about Finland, or Sweden, or Norway, or Germany, or Great Britain...? We don't even have national healthcare!
"Marxist" is a generalized term which includes anyone who follows the philosophies indoctrinated by Karl Marx and his novel The Communist Manifesto, written around 1848-ish. Marxism is not necessarily the same thing as communism or socialism, however they are similar. All communists are marxist but all marxists are not communist.
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Was Marx a philosopher or economist? As a philosopher the advantages are in the area of the determination of the psychological activity and the method of understanding this not from the individual social being but according to the form or way in which that individual inserts as a social being in objectively real activity. Also in providing a language that represents this activity by removing the dichotomous nature from the contradictions arising from trying to disclose the individual as less than a social activity also, for example the individual vs. society, the individual and reality etc.
As an economist he pointed out the disparity and arrangement of the social order but in no way condemned capitalism as a counterpart to socialism but eschewed the reality that both are necessary and functional realities.
Any thing else is just the misinformed and dominating structures such as dictatorships and cruel monarchies that use Marx's name but not even close do they come to the reality that Marx is or meant to be. The US probably utilizes Marx more than any and no matter what is said, the US is the most socialistic and comunualistic country in the world. So far this way Marx makes sense.
Of course Marx was for human rights. That is why he wrote Das Kapital. However, the people who came after him, like Lenin, persecuted millions in Marx's name. Some people think it was accident, others say it couldn't be avoided.
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