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Probably because the implementations tried have failed so badly. If people distanced themselves from the hammer and sickle, communism could possibly be given an
by 0181109 8y ago
Probably because the implementations tried have failed so badly. If people distanced themselves from the hammer and sickle, communism could possibly be given another chance but in the meantime it looks like people showing that icon either don't know about history or they have explained it away quite callously.
- danharaj 8y agoI mean, Marx specifically thought that communism could not be achieved by jumping from a pre-industrialized economy and skipping capitalism.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Probably because the implementations tried have failed so badly Implementations of Leninism did, sure, but (deliberate mislabeling aside), I'm not sure what that has to do with Marc, since Leninism rejected the preconditions Marx laid out and altered the approach to address the changed preconditions. Leninism is farther from Marxism than the near-universal abandonment of the system Marx named “capitalism” for modern mixed economies (which, to be sure, is still pretty far from Marxism), so if you are going to blame Marx at all for the failure of the former, you have to credit him at least as much for the success of the latter.
- 0181109 8y agoWell could people who do understand Marx (by your interpretation, at least) do more in distancing themselves from Leninism and the hammer and sickle?