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by crdoconnor 3321 days ago
>What solution did Marx propose?

He didn't, really. His proposals were pretty vague. 99% of what he wrote was a (pretty spot on) critique of capitalism.

Needless to say most of the propaganda attacks on his ideas are based upon guilt by association.

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> > What solution did Marx propose?

> He didn't, really. His proposals were pretty vague. 99% of what he wrote was a (pretty spot on) critique of capitalism.

The Communist Manifesto was fairly detailed and prescriptive. It's true that Capital was mostly description and critique of capitalism, but that's not all Marx wrote.

> Needless to say most of the propaganda attacks on his ideas are based upon guilt by association.

Specifically, most are based on association with Leninist vanguardism, which is a fairly radical departure from Marxism prescriptively.

As far as the Russian Revolution was concerned, Chernyshevsky was seen as influential in terms of developing a prescriptive remedy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=What_Is_To_Be_Don...