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this. they rarely read the originals, rather read what modern takes people have, usually short form, reddit tier, superficial trash.

and then they ignore virtually all historical context, picking and choosing only the tiny tidbits that don't completely blow over their position.

and when you highlight that every far left society ever has resulted in mass killings of their own people, they first try to pilpul the topic away, but ultimately wear it as a badge of pride... after all, the non-comrades were the tens of millions who were exterminated. they're absolutely okay with mass killings, do long as its those who stand against the far left revolution.

Honestly, marx isn't super profound. I'm quite familiar with his works. With the exception of the manifesto, he advocates for nothing really. He just explained what capitalism is based on an extrapolated version of Adam Smith's labor theory of value. Marx's core critique of capitalism influenced far, far more than the marxists themselves. And in his critiques he was prophetic. The fault lay in the manifesto and in several of his essays, where he does indeed lay out a solution. The worker control of the MOP isn't even the core issue here, even fascist italy implemented this policy in the social Republic (and mussolini probably planned to the whole time). Even hitler, in a complicated way, implemented effective state socialism by ensuring every major industry was headed by a guy in government (even if in name it was "private").

The slander that the NSDAP is "actually capitalist" is from the rather ignorant mouth of Otto Strasser, and this lie from this relatively obscure figure forever lingers in leftist consciousness. Lets hear it from the horses mouth, from the real communists: Lenin never said "fascism is capitalism in decay" (because it isnt and he never thought this). The USSR never called hitlers Germany or mussolinis Italy capitalist, not a single time. They recognized fascism, accurately, as something different. At one point as an ally and at the next an enemy. This slander is something that appeared after ww2 among western leftists. Of course the ussr wasn't a stranger to throwing the word "fascist" around, however they did not conflate them with liberals either.

 The problem, of course, with traditional marxism is onviously internationalism.

Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed

Just go watch Dr. Zhivago. That will show you everything you need to know about 'muh communism'.

I never had a clue what Zizek was talking about, but that could be his disgusting speech impediment.