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Equality wasn't an explicit goal of that system though. It was for communism, which never achieved it at any significant scale. My comment was less about it bei
by jrs95 9y ago
Equality wasn't an explicit goal of that system though. It was for communism, which never achieved it at any significant scale. My comment was less about it being a failed experiment though, and more about whether or not it was "worthwhile".
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Equality wasn't an explicit goal of that system though. It was for communism, which never achieved it at any significant scale Well, thats kind of unsurprising, since all the actual attempts to implement “Communism” on a national scale threw out the prerequisites in Marxism on favor of the (notionally transitional) elite ruling class of Leninist vanguardism (an adaptation to allow bypassing capitalist democracy entirely, because—viewed generously—the Bolsheviks and their successors were too impatient for Marxism.)