Revolution is downstream of economics. Capitalism had established itself by the time of the revolutions in Europe, the revolutions were just a means of catching up

Drawing divisions between what marxism is and isn't is a result of the systemization of marxism in the Stalin period, and doesn't do justice to either marxism or things that are outside marxism

Good art is art that speaks to the universal

The fall of c the soviet union marked a back sliding of global feminism

Can alienation be abolished? Derrick says capitalist alienation is only negative

Positivism in its objectivity and rationality leaves no space for subjectivity or teleology

Marx criticized the German idealists for being anti-semetic, but felt that their antisemitism spoke to a real criticism of the world

The German idealists claimed that the state was producing civil society in a dialectic

People make the distinction between good national capitalism and bad international capitalism, but they are two sides of the same whole

Anti-imperialism is not inherently anti-capitalist

Capitalism imposes a set of constrains on all behavior in society, and even society in general. It's better to be a capitalist but they are still constrained