Is that an accurate description of communism? — Purple Pond
The communist economy is --- inefficient. — Purple Pond
No it wasn't. People were following what Marx had in mind, the leaders were following what they had in their own mind. — René Descartes
Is that what the creators of communism had in mind? — Purple Pond
We can't forget what happened. Millions of death. You can't just bury it. — René Descartes
Is that an accurate description of communism? — Purple Pond
No.
Marx and Engles would have been horrified to have seen Stalin and Mao; how "communism" had been hijacked by a system of State Capitalism. — charleton
Surely this can't be what people had in mind by "communism". — Purple Pond
forming associations to protect themselves. — Londoner
What people who read Marx (long before 1917) presumably had in mind were medieval communes. Groups of peasants, or tradesmen, or the inhabitants of a town or parish, forming associations to protect themselves. That is fundamentally Marxism; that an individual will always be weak within an economic system; that they need to realise their collective strength. — Londoner
I agree with both of you. We have not truly experienced real communism as Marx and Engels preached. Rosa Luxemburg seemed to be close to this true communism but she was assassinated.
However I can see the point from anti-Communists that what we have seen thus far around the world of what is called "Communism", isn't a good image. — René Descartes
They paid warlord/aristocrats for protection. That is not Marxism. Marxism is a passive wait for history to reveal its purpose. — frank
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