7 Huge Misconceptions About Communism (and Capitalism)

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51. You mean like Capitalism's "Homo economicus"?

There really aren't many flaws in Marxist theory. some, of course - all economic theory has flaws, owing to the irrationality of humans - but it's still quite strong.

These posters above saying "Stalin and Mao didn't practice real communism!" are on the right direction but still the wrong neighborhood. It's not that those despots and some others like them did not practice "pure communism," it's that they didn't practice any communism at all. Stalin and Mao were fascists. They utilized communist sloganeering, but any examination reveals that they readily adopted right-wing nationalist militarism, created corporatist states, and sought to "perfect" society by eugenic pruning of those deemed "unfit."

The USSR and China were - are - right-wing regimes that represent the inevitable pinnacle of capitalism - one big boss, in charge of a unified corporation-state that grinds its people for labor at the minimal expense possible for maximized profit, which is then turned into guns and warships. Marx would have shit kittens.