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In reply to the discussion: What is your opinion about Marxism? [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)Dictatorships answer to no one, tend towards absolute power, and in several Communist countries oversaw the murderous destruction of all dissenting voices, or even those suspected of dissenting. As I said in an earlier post, I think Marx had a very poor understanding of human nature, and of what motivates people. Humans are more self-interested than altruistic, and will work much harder for their personal good than for the common good. This is revealed as well in the track record of the Communist dictators who pursued their own personal power at all costs, as much as it is in capitalism.
The stages in Marx's view of how society will evolve, from class conflict, to socialism, to a classless stateless Communism is a rather high-flown piece of magical thinking. People don't work that way. Marx had an idealistic and impossible utopian concept, but it is not grounded in anything close to reality.
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