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Marx also failed to predict that communist governments would try to implement their take on Marxist policies and those ended up being worse than the capitalist
by goatlover 3y ago
Marx also failed to predict that communist governments would try to implement their take on Marxist policies and those ended up being worse than the capitalist ones.
- jmyeet 3y agoCommunism predates Marx (to the 18th century) and differs from socialism. Both seek to have labor own the means of production but communism also concerns itself with consumption (Marx: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"). But really what you're talking about is what's called Marxist-Leninism as crafted by the Bolshevik in Russia in 1917 and beyond. But what Marx is really known for is creating an analytical framework to be able to discuss these things. Abraham Lincoln's views on this pretty closely match Marx's, as an aside. > ... those ended up being worse than the capitalist ones. You really want to start comparing communist outcomes against Western colonialism and imperialism? The slave trade? And you can rightfully say a bunch of bad things about Stalin but he'll always get credit for killing Nazis and defeating Hitler (at an absolutely horrendous cost, as an aside).
- goatlover 3y agoMao and Pol Pot don't get credit. Colonialism predates capitalism. Imperialism is something empires have historically done, regardless of the economic system. Slavery existed in the ancient world. How about capitalism in the 20th century compared to communism?