ALL of the successful examples of socialism are social democracies - mixed economies, where socialist leaders are ELECTED instead of installed by violence, and where much capitalistic activity remains.pic.twitter.com/aKou37XSsV
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ALL of the successful examples of socialism are social democracies - mixed economies, where socialist leaders are ELECTED instead of installed by violence, and where much capitalistic activity remains.pic.twitter.com/aKou37XSsV
Successful socialism hasn't followed Marx's blueprint. Instead, it has largely followed the blueprint of a later, mostly forgotten socialist figure: Eduard Bernstein.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Bernstein …
Wait, are you saying Eduard Bernstein wasn't a Marxist? That's a strange argument.
Sure, Marxists of all stripes denounce each other as renegades. Marx's own political practice in England (with trade unions) are telling about how he thought politics should work in society with free speech & elections.
Written before Marx moved to England before universal manhood suffrage (brought by the reforms of the 1860s). You kind of have to know the context of statements.
You're wrong. That's a very poor rule for a thinker who specifically tried to evolve to meet changing historical conditions. Might be helpful to read a good intellectual historian of Marx & democracy. I'd recommend Sidney Hook & Hal Draper.
The most violent revolution Marx supported was the Northern side in American Civil War (i.e. the revolution that overturned slavery). He was right to do so.
Marx's general notion that violent class revolution was the key to establishing socialism probably contributed somewhat to events so disastrous and ruinous that their scale and horror beggars belief.
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