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Originally Posted by elphenor
Marxism is not an economic system in itself
it's a laundry list of criticisms of capitalism primarily, followed by the romantic belief that workers will revolt worldwide and create a stateless, classless, fully democratized society
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That I knew, which is why I wonder why people are afraid of 'implementing Marxism'. From what I understand there is no direct or agreed upon idea on how to implement it. Who in history has ever tried to 'implement Marxism'? I know that socialism and communism have failed but were any socialists or commies who put that structure forward ever Marxists?
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Originally Posted by Anteater
As flawed as Capitalism can be, it has produced more success stories than not.
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On an individual level, I disagree. I think the number of victims of Capitalism completely out weigh the success stories. It's just that people have this idea that one day they just might be rich so they just see themselves as success stories that just haven't reached success yet. Statistically speaking, success stories are all too rare. On a government level, I personally don't know a Capitalist system that has failed (I'm not really educated very well on those things) and I do know that Capitalism is what has made our country so powerful and an economic powerhouse. Yet, it also seems to be the biggest reason for our flaws and the highest potential cause for our downfall. It's what keeps greed flowing and has made a criminally large wealth gap. I don't think Capitalism as it is right now is sustainable. Challenging that is what often times gets people labeled as Marxists or Commies. I don't know if I'd qualify as a Marxist because my idea of how to evolve is to form a system of government that's more of a Frankenstein's monster that takes what works from multiple systems and sticks them together rather than moving to pure socialism or something like that. I'm not sure how, I'm not the person with enough knowledge to really flesh out that idea.