You are incorrect. Marx felt strongly that his ideas should be used politically to change the state of the world. Aspects Marxism can be applied in a scientific/apolitical way, but this is not what it was initially developed for.
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rockerface@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks agoMarxism did begin as a purely scientific study, before Soviets mutated it into an ideology
davetortoise@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
Marx still wouldn’t agree with turning his work into an ideology to be followed. Besides, scientific doesn’t mean apolitical.
davetortoise@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
I’m not sure what you understand by the word “ideology”
Objection@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it
FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Where did you get that idea? Marx actively built the first international, how is that purely scientific study?