While your observation of Marx’s misunderstanding of human nature is true, you have obviously read nothing of Marx himself. Ironically, he had many friends, several children, and was a very sociable person with a sharp sense of humor. Alpha male all the way. Yes, he lived in poverty and wrote books, but he had close friends who owned factories.

In fact, if you look for the roots of Marxism, it comes right from the industrialists who wanted to run the world. In their minds, humans could be turned into replaceable components. This is exactly where the modern educational system comes from also. Students are simply units of work-potential, to be channeled into this or that industry and division of labor, and are to be optimized for such based on their various attributes, as long as they display no tendency to think for themselves, or ask vital questions about the system as a whole.

Marxism IS a factory religion. It was all about “means of production” (and “strict accounting and control” as you can see from the writings of Lenin). They held that you could reduced everything to a formula, and the cold logic of this formula would be so welcomed by the people of the world that it was in fact inevitable.

“Marx got everything wrong. Or, he got human nature wrong, which is everything. ”

The workers of the world didn’t unite much, however the women of the world have done it to a better degree.
Mitchell Heisman(google his suicide note) made the case that Marx erringly argued his case about class war from conditions in England, not realizing that the Norman-Saxon racial struggle underlied it. He then makes the case that the American Civil War was largely influenced by it.

“20% of the workers are doing most of the goods”

the pareto principle?

So…”the theory is the important thing” for the two in the clip.

how odd

the important thing, as far as I can see, is that every single time that this “master-theory” has been tried, it has failed. Most logical people that I know would take that to indicate that the theory was a pile of shit…

of course, the bigger problem is that we let such dullards vote.

“The theory is the important thing.” Ironic that the maker of the video thinks this is a nice little dig at Austrian theory. Marxism does not take into account that people change their behavior when presented with different options, rewards, or punishments, while Austrian theory is all about that fact (see “Human Action” by Mises). Keynesian economic theory is more in line with Marxism, in that it assumes government can simply channel money this way and that without affecting how hard people are willing to work

Marx, an Alpha male? Ha!

He lived off of his feminist wife, and Das Kapital was one year of his life.

Well I think you must bear in mind that Marx was in the same time that Darwin was working out evolutionary theory. Why liberals like both is a sort of cognitive dissonance, oh well.

Regarding Martels deconstruction of Marx’s ValueTheory and the statute of Beavis. What Marx was referencing is that its value is to you, you put time into it so it has value to you. It might not be what others value it at. He was outlining from what I can tell how you need to be industrious in finding what others will pay for something, something he called “the production of surplus value”. I find him not to be completely without merit, but off with regards to his final static solution.