03-27-2021, 03:22 PM
(03-25-2021, 03:34 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(03-24-2021, 04:28 PM)Einzige Wrote:(03-22-2021, 04:57 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: It has been 173 years since Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto. Name one nation where capital has been abolished and your version of Marxism has been implemented and established.
A whole three full generations for an entire social logic to work itself out! You've really got me there.
I wouldn't give up yet. If the Chinese Communist Party insists on not listening to the people, something like a proletarian revolution could yet occur. Expecting the result to mesh with the Marxist ideal? Well, maybe you should give up.
Worth remembering: the Commies' predecessor, the Kuomintang, began as a left-wing Party and went to the Right, too
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.