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• cyphar 7y ago
  Have you read The Communist Manifesto, or Das Kapital? Is there a particular aspect you are referring to as being "addictive"? I would argue "workplaces should be democratic" (which is a very rudimentary one-sentence synopsis of Marxism) is only an addictive idea if you consider democracy to be addictive in the same manner. And maybe it is, but then you have to ask yourself -- is an idea being so good that it becomes addictive a bad thing?
  • buboard 7y ago
    put the phrase "opium of the masses" in its original context. Religion was the "illusory happiness of the people" for marx. 50 years later, one could say the same about Communism however. People believed in it , it made them feel good, but their belief ended up becoming a facade that masked their misery. I think this extends to politics in general, in particular Statist politics , which promise make the individual as powerful as a State, but usually end up making the State itself powerful by stepping on the individual.
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