Essay talk:On the Hegelian Influence on Marxism

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This is the first essay I've read here that actually sounds like it could have been turned in for an 9th grade history assignment. ikanreed 🐐Bleat at me 18:51, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * 128MILLIONS Lurio (talk) 23:01, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

This essay is a bit weird
It is thanks to this essay that I created an account on RW after being a reader for several years.

I'm not going to claim that I'm a Marx scholar, but I don't think that Marx used the phrase "march of history" on more than one or two occasions. It's not a big deal but still, it's weird to act like that's a common phrase among Marx or Engels when one can only find it in one article.

Secondly, Marx made no secret about having been influenced by Hegel. He mentions Hegel in several of his works, and it is a known fact that Marx was in his youth a member of the so-called "young Hegelians". I've assumed that everyone knows that Hegel influenced Marx, so the essay seems a bit weird.

Also, I reacted to this: ''"Communism, specifically it's Marxist branch and the branches of Marxism has killed at least 128,000,000 people." ''

I may be accused of bias but I think that this is a problematic but all too common sentence to read.

Communism is a broad ideology with many variations. It is like saying that Christianity has killed millions of people. It implies that the Quakers bear guilt for the crusades, which is absurd. I don't think I'm arguing against the writer here because the article appears to not mean what it is in fact implying.

I would instead write that "The regimes of Lenin, Stalin and Mao has killed millions of people". Softcommie (talk) 17:31, 21 July 2019 (UTC)