尽管在大方向上错了，卡尔·马克思算不算是一个天才？

Was Karl Marx a genius even if he was wrong on the big picture?

答主：Pedro Carvalho, Reader on the history of revolutionary movements

He was obviously highly intelligent and created an original, influential theory. I’d say he was actually right on the big picture, which is how capitalism creates problems for itself.
他显然非常聪明，并且创造了一套富有影响力的原创理论。我要说的是，他其实在大方向上是对的，因为他指出了资本主义是如何作茧自缚的。

People have the idea that Marx’s “big picture” was about how communism would triumph within a certain period of time. It wasn’t.
人们所谓的马克思的“大方向“指的是共产主义将如何在之后的一段时间内取得胜利。但其实不然。

The bulk of his work was a critique of capitalist society, a lot of which is incredibly accurate regardless of one’s particular political preferences.
他的著作中大部分是对于资本主义社会的批判，其中的大量内容，不论对持有何种政治倾向的人来说，都正确得令人难以置信。

Outside militant anti-leftist circles, a lot of non-communist and even non-leftist academics still use parts of his work and are influenced by it. He’s an important intelectual, not just some sort of propagandist for specific political ideas.
除激进的反左翼圈子外，许多反对共产主义甚至反对左翼观点的学者仍然运用了部分马克思的著作，并受其影响。他是一位重要的知识分子，而不只是某种特殊政治理念的鼓吹者。

单词表

the big picture 最重要的部分；全局
truimph n. 巨大成功
bulk n. 大部分
incredibly adv. 难以置信地
militant adj. 激进的
academic n. 学者
intellectual n. 知识分子
propagandist n. 鼓吹者

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时间：2022年12月5日