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I don't think our prof did a bad job of presenting Marx, he uses Marx's consideration of options other than capitalism and Marx's alternative human values in his own arguments for the welfare state. The class gave me quite a bit of appreciation for Marx.
If anything I'd say that class made me much more sympathetic to socialist views. I think our prof made a point to try to be balanced in the readings (we even read some Rand) and not push anything too hard on us.
Comment by Milo-Minderbinder at 05/12/2013 at 00:15 UTC
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That's good. It is very hard to say anything intelligent about your experience from a couple of lines of text, so I was referring to my own experiences in this country which of course might differ quite a bit from yours. By the way, my problem with the way I have seen Marx taught is not that professors are unsympathetic to his views or his arguments are unfairly criticized, on the contrary they are quite rightly criticized. It has more to do with the framework they are presented within, unless you are a Marx scholar, you will most likely never see Marx in any other context than as a criticism of capitalism, and that is a shame I think.