Marxism Explicaterized in 4 EZ Steps - commentary.za

commentary.za is quoting from Irina Filatova, "The State in Africa and African Renaissance: The Paradox of Abnormality or the Normality of the Paradox?" Quoting extracts:

1. ...A Marxist theory on x is always "x is a mechanism that the bourgeoisie use to enrich themselves and keep the proletarian masses poor". Instead of x, write one of the following terms: democracy, international trade, banks, capitalism...

2. ..."Help," you're thinking. "I don't know what this means." It doesn't matter, nobody else does either. Thus, any interpretation you make up is de facto the right answer...

3. Marxism is immune to falsification....

4. ...You will soon learn that Karl Marx is the single most important intellectual the human race has ever produced....This is great, because it means you only have to learn one theory, and you've effectively studied for seven different subjects...

Read the whole thing.

(Via Jay McCarthy whose blog you should check out.)