Kwame Ture makes a similar argument when criticising anti-communists.
He rejects the idea that Marx ‘invented socialism’.
He argues that anyone observing and recording their observations on capitalism would come to the same conclusion.
In the same way as someone in Africa or Asia would come to the same conclusions as Newton by observing nature. (Roughly: an object will continue to move until it meets an opposing force.)
Just to be annoying. Even without Marx, I myself intuited the contradictions of capital. I just didnt have the language for it.
Kwame Ture makes a similar argument when criticising anti-communists.
He rejects the idea that Marx ‘invented socialism’.
He argues that anyone observing and recording their observations on capitalism would come to the same conclusion.
In the same way as someone in Africa or Asia would come to the same conclusions as Newton by observing nature. (Roughly: an object will continue to move until it meets an opposing force.)
He is correct. Give all the credit we want to Marx. But the oppressed understood this before Marx put pen to paper.