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He wasn’t ignored, and tens of millions of people died unnecessarily trying to implement his ideas.
by frumplestlatz 1y ago
He wasn’t ignored, and tens of millions of people died unnecessarily trying to implement his ideas.
- Jensson 1y agoWhat he didn't expect was the rise to democracy and governments that started to help people rather than oppress them. Modern governments having so high taxes and using almost all of that for social benefit while being controlled by the people is probably something Marx would already call an utopia, but people call that horrible capitalism still even though its nothing like the capitalism under his time.
- LudwigNagasena 1y agoI agree that Marx missed to a large degree the ability of the system to adapt; and it shows both in his philosophical and economics writings. It’s a bit ironic that in 1883, the year Marx died, Otto von Bismarck initiated a series of reforms in an effort to appease the working class. The reforms that were disparagingly called Staatssozialismus (State Socialism) by his liberal opponents. I doubt Marx would call modern governments utopia, but the centralisation of banking, state schooling and better working conditions were indeed a part of the demands in his manifesto.