- 18 Nov 2011 13:28
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No one actually knows how socialism and communism in a Marxist sense should work, mostly because Marx missed to explain it himself. So the best thing you can do is to have a look at what kind of systems socialists and communists created through history. That can be helpful because recent socialists and communists are very much like they were, they are mostly Leninists or Stalinists (or some kind of utopian losers). In my opinion the whole thing would basically be very much like the Soviet Union was, no matter if they happen to think or say otherwise.
By the way, TIG is right, Marxism is basically about explaining history and criticizing capitalism and class-society, it's not about laying down the theoretical foundations of a new socio-economic system.
Wolfman wrote:I don't know, maybe I'm stupid, but every time I ask Communists a question about something specific under Communism, I always seem to get some vague answer that kind of relates to the question, but not really, and then when I say that I don't understand how it relates to my question, I seem to regularly get some backhanded insult.
No one actually knows how socialism and communism in a Marxist sense should work, mostly because Marx missed to explain it himself. So the best thing you can do is to have a look at what kind of systems socialists and communists created through history. That can be helpful because recent socialists and communists are very much like they were, they are mostly Leninists or Stalinists (or some kind of utopian losers). In my opinion the whole thing would basically be very much like the Soviet Union was, no matter if they happen to think or say otherwise.
By the way, TIG is right, Marxism is basically about explaining history and criticizing capitalism and class-society, it's not about laying down the theoretical foundations of a new socio-economic system.