From the Mises Institute.
The Conflict of Ideologies: Marxism vs. the Majority
– Marxism denies consciousness by attributing all thought to class affiliation.
– Marx considered all dissent treason, and developed anti-democratic ideas where majorities failed to endorse his views.
The Critics of Marxism
– Materialism denies consciousness and contradicts itself by attempting to attribute all human decisions and civilization to material conditions.
– Marx hated Prussia’s Hohenzollern’s socialism, because it wasn’t *his* socialism.
– Marxism became decidedly anti-Christian.
– Dialectic materialism falls apart in trying to explain simplest historical events.
– Marxians never ascribe positive trends to class machinations, only negative ones.
– Marxism sharply contrasts Freud. The former denies consciousness, the latter relies on it. Even Marx critics ignore this.
– Christian Marxists ignore Marx’s decidedly anti-Christian views. Marxism, for example, teaches religious ideas are the “super structure” of material production.
The Ideological Impregnation of Thought
– Thoughts are always & inevitably attributed to one’s class, and they serve the interest of that class.
(Marx never reconciles this w/ his undeniably bourgeois background. Nor does he define “class.” Nor does he address the possibility that a correct theory might be more useful to a person than a false one.)
– Marx’s motive was the adoption of socialism. Instead of addressing the devastating criticism of economists, he dismissed their whole work as the machinations of a rival “class,” and ridiculed them. They are wrong, because they are bourgeois, and there is no reason for careful analysis.
– They made exception to their own thoughts and theories, which they assumed were true and pure.