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Because he also prescribed violently overthrowing democracy. He had some great ideas, and some truly ridiculous ideas. I can appreciate his inspired insights ab

Because he also prescribed violently overthrowing democracy. He had some great ideas, and some truly ridiculous ideas. I can appreciate his inspired insights about capitalism, but I reject his deification. It's easy to criticise an operational system. It's much, much harder to prescribe and implement workable solutions, and I think that's where Marx failed. "Tear it all down and make everything awesome" is just silly. Based on his works, dozens of countries have tried, or are currently trying, to implement communism. More than 100 million people have died as a result. It's time to accept reality: his prescription doesn't work. We know capitalism is flawed. That doesn't mean we should tear it down. So far it is our least bad social and economic structure.

Gud 3y ago
Karl Marx didn't prescribe "violently overthrowing democracy". He predicted(correctly, in my opinion) that the current ruling elite would not give up their power over the institutions peacefully, thus violent revolution is a requirement to implement the communist system.
- Gareth321 3y ago
  He very explicitly did so. Have you not read his most popular works? > The purposeless massacres perpetrated since the June and October events, the tedious offering of sacrifices since February and March, the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror. > Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and ... the alteration of men on a mass scale is, necessary, ... a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.

Gud 3y ago

Karl Marx didn't prescribe "violently overthrowing democracy". He predicted(correctly, in my opinion) that the current ruling elite would not give up their power over the institutions peacefully, thus violent revolution is a requirement to implement the communist system.

Gareth321 3y ago
He very explicitly did so. Have you not read his most popular works? > The purposeless massacres perpetrated since the June and October events, the tedious offering of sacrifices since February and March, the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror. > Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and ... the alteration of men on a mass scale is, necessary, ... a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.