34. Critique of the Gotha Program | Karl Marx

This week, self professed Marxists on the internet Jack and Dan do that rarest of things, they read some actual Marx! As an appendix to their continuing engagement with the very excellent text ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’, the lads took a look at Karl Marx’s withering and often times pedantic commentary on the 1875 founding programmatic document of the German Social Democratic Party; published posthumously in 1891 by Engels as ‘Critique of the Gotha Program’. Jack and Dan discover what a total loser Ferdinand Lassalle was, discuss further labour time credits as a potential replacement for wages, learn about Marx’s views on the states as well as the two fold nature of the transition to Communism, and also find out that child labour is apparently a good thing now…? All whilst slowly melting in an attic. Reading: Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (1875/1891)