Marxism really was like the quantum physics breakthrough of the social sciences

I liked how they used the analogy in that episode that Marx is to socioeconomics as Darwin is to biology. It’s something I’ve said when trying to persuade science-minded but liberal family members to give consideration to leftist ideas, and I’m surprised I don’t hear it used a lot more often.

I literally spent dozens of hours in college studying “theories of social change” trying to find a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of how qualitative changes in society occur and every librarian I went to told me I was out of luck and all theories that were easy to find were narrowly focused on some specific feature of change (e.g. “resource mobilization theory”). Then I find Marxism and I realised bourgeois social science must be intentionally keeping students in the stone ages.

tl;dr I was literally going to go to grad school unknowingly trying to re-discover Marxism but after I actually read Marx I’m glad I don’t have to

Really understanding dialectical and historical materialism is such a profound shift in how you can interpret the world. Every liberal I know thinks I’m an asshole.