Why did Marxism fail to be realized?
In your opinion, what was the greatest obstacle for the implementation of Marxism?
posted by Was @ 9:52 PM
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In your opinion, what was the greatest obstacle for the implementation of Marxism?
posted by Was @ 9:52 PM
4 Comments:
remember, there is no one right answer. Your ideas go along with our class discussin. Good...
good point. Marx looked to a proletariat though! India and China are primarily peasant-dominated areas. Little infrastructure that could truly support them. I think for the most part, Marx would look towards Mexico today for the perfect place for Communism. Anyone who rejected it could easily escape to Central America or the US.
They have the oil infrastructure and urban areas. I don't know, what do you think?
Marxy failed because he somehow believed that the people who would be reconditioning the lower classes would automatically give up power? when has any group in history willfully given up power of their own accord, without any pressure? Yeah, i didn't think so. I think we have some definate traces of opium, if not from marx, from his mother smoking it during the pregnancy. Don't get me wrong, i think that communism is a wonderful proposition in a perfect world. Only in a perfect world, though. And, if you want a very strong argument in favor of capitalism, read Atlas Shrugged or the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Oh, and Wassy, you never answered me on that horrifically long blog about whether you read them and if you did what you thought of them.
I'll end on a different note, though. Marx was a radical thinker who was honestly trying to help society. His well-grounded prediciton of the future just didin't happen, unfortunately. :(
Sure people are bad... but they are certainly more lazy. Marx never thought those big, bad oppressors would stop, er, oppressing. Sure, the little rights the bourgeois offered the working class weren't ideal, but it was certainly easier for an uneducated, scared population to accept them than to revolt and spontaneously pull a 'non-government' out of their... factories.
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