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I don't understand how this is supposed to change anything? Every experiment with communism so far has ended with famine an/or genocide. I don't want to be pa

• claudiawerner 6y ago
  > I don't understand how this is supposed to change anything? Your argument was that those who are ignorant of history are in favor of Communism. This is cast into doubt by the fact that there are respected Marxist historians. Alain Badiou has some good arguments for "trying" Communism given its history; in particular, he has the example of Fermat's Last Theorem, which for hundreds of years had many attempts at solutions, each of which ending in failure (sometimes disastrous), though many of which opened new areas of mathematics. He argues that previous attempts at creating Communist society likewise have given rise to key insights and questions, which we are in a more prepared position to answer - he names two in particular: the Paris Commune and the Shanghai Commune (two examples you may have forgotten about) which raise such questions. Many people, communists or not, do not want to suffer under capitalism, and they don't want their friends to do so either.
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