According to Marx, communism will arrive in wealthy industrialised countries first, due to the contradictions of late stage capitalism. In reality, however, th

According to Marx, communism will arrive in wealthy industrialised countries first, due to the contradictions of late stage capitalism. In reality, however, the opposite happened. Russian potato farmers without any machines or capital started industrialising the moment the communists took over. Communism is a dead ideology, because it failed to evolve in the face of reality disagreeing with the communist world view. Communists think that capital grants its owners power and that competition leads to exploitation, when the exact opposite is true.