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'ordu answered as a person who has lived under communism. By "mass media" 'ordu meant "pravda". 'ordu is 100% correct about the communism as it was practiced in
by wolf550e 9y ago
'ordu answered as a person who has lived under communism. By "mass media" 'ordu meant "pravda". 'ordu is 100% correct about the communism as it was practiced in the 20th century. You are a theoretical marxist who has never seen what communism is like in practice. You would just say about every attempt to build communism that failed (which is all of them) that it was not real communism.
- kunimu 9y agoI don't deny that he or she may be correct about how Communism was practiced. In fact, Marcuse doesn't deny this either and describes the Soviet model as just as much of an issue in terms of rationality and consumption as Western capitalism. However, while Marcuse is a pessimist I consider myself an optimist, along with Zizek and Alain Badiou and Negri on the Communist Idea in general. I don't think the errors of the 20th century's Communsit movements should be repeated, and it's our job to look for what these problems were and how to effect qualitative rather than merely quantitative change in them. I'm generally a skeptic of Marxism-Leninism and the idea of an elite group of educators to teach the masses.