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No you haven't because had you, then you would know this:
According to Engels, he did and was in favor of Capitalism as he viewed Liberalism on the same side as Socialism and Communism in terms of revolution against the old order:
"To him [Marx], Free Trade is the normal condition of modern capitalist production. Only under Free Trade can the immense productive powers of steam, of electricity, of machinery, be full developed; and the quicker the pace of this development, the sooner and the more fully will be realized its inevitable results; society splits up into two classes, capitalists here, wage-labourers there; hereditary wealth on one side, hereditary poverty on the other; supply outstripping demand, the markets being unable to absorb the ever growing mass of the production of industry; an ever recurring cycle of prosperity, glut, crisis, panic, chronic depression, and gradual revival of trade, the harbinger not of permanent improvement but of renewed overproduction and crisis; in short, productive forces expanding to such a degree that they rebel, as against unbearable fetters, against the social institutions under which they are put in motion; the only possible solution: a social revolution, freeing the social productive forces from the fetters of an antiquated social order, and the actual producers, the great mass of the people, from wage slavery. And because Free Trade is the natural, the normal atmosphere for this historical evolution, the economic medium in which the conditions for the inevitable social revolution will be the soonest created – for this reason, and for this alone, did Marx declare in favour of Free Trade."- F. Engels, Preface to Marx, On the Question of Free Trade (1888).
Also, some more from Marx himself where he favors overthrowing the aristocracy and praised capitalism as the mechanism of this overthrow:
"By Free Trade they mean the unfettered movement of capital, freed from all political, national and religious shackles. The soil is to be a marketable commodity, and the exploitation of the soil is to be carried on according to the common commercial laws. There are to be manufacturers of food as well as manufacturers of twist and cottons, but no longer any lords of the land. There are, in short, NOT to be tolerated any political or social restrictions, regulations or monopolies, unless they proceed from ‘the eternal laws of political economy’, that is, from the conditions under which Capital produces and distributes. The struggle of this party against the old English institutions, products of a superannuated, an evanescent stage of social development, is resumed in the watchword: Produce as cheap as you can, and do away with all the faux frais of production (with all superfluous, unnecessary expenses in production). And this watchword is addressed not only to the private individual, but to the nation at large principally’."- Karl Marx, ‘Free Trade and the Chartists’, New-York Daily Tribune, August 25, 1852.
So, again, Capitalism/Liberalism are as left wing as Karl Marx and Occasio Cortex and LGBTQ and Donald Trump, what do you know?
@WebMaster @waz @The Eagle @Irfan Baloch
Is profane language and emotionally charged personal attacks and slander allowed on this forum?
Anyhow, my work here is done. Cant debate with someone resorting to personal attacks and slander because he's lost the argument
@OsmanAli98 @Omar Al-Deek
Marx idea was to use Capitalism as staging point to get to Socialism and Communism tho