The 20th century saw 100 million people murdered by their own governments in an attempt to make Karl Marx's vision for the future a reality. I hope the game handles him appropriately.
That seems unnecessarily harsh on Dan. This is way below that level.
Holding Marx responsible for the crimes of Stalin & Mao & Hoxha & Pot makes as much sense as holding Adam Smith responsible for the crimes committed by capitalists throughout history, or Rousseau for the French Revolution & the bloodshed that followed. He was a philosopher, an economist & basically one of the creators of the field of sociology, not the leader of a genocidal regime. Marx I bet the OP has read barely a page of Marx, if that. If we use his logic then where does it stop? Do we go back to Hegel, whose ideas influenced a young Karl Marx? And then his predecessors in the German idealist movement, going back to Kant, one of the most influential names in modern western philosophy? And so on, right the way back to Socrates. It's absurd.
Just as the son cannot be held responsible for the sins of the father, so the father cannot be accountable for the sins of the son. Marx's ideas influenced lots of people who didn't lead genocidal regimes, there'd be no modern progressive social democracy without Marxism for starters.
Keep fighting the good fight, clearly this guy was a genius despite everything his influenced touched turning to shit. Defending the ideology of mass-murderers is always a good look.
Again, that's a great understanding of history and ideologies. Making grand claims based on nothing is always a good look.
Let's just skip the comparison of a real historical person with a fictional one, but the Bible Jesus came with a sword, and fought dragons, which is cool, but he was kinda a jerk, at least in the modern context.
@qawsed: I would rather pin that on the governments themselves instead of slanting someone's personality towards what their ideas got twisted into after death. If governments implementing someone's ideas in horrible ways made him an asshole, then Jesus would've been a jerk.
The 20th century saw 100 million people murdered by their own governments in an attempt to make Karl Marx's vision for the future a reality. I hope the game handles him appropriately.
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