It's idealist, by definition, to believe ideas are responsible for economic and political systems. The communist bloc was defined by its economic development by industrialization, which came with all the horrors that accompanied it in the West
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Crudest take on the materialism / idealism difference I've ever seen. ...
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'Responsibility is a crushing form of stratification ... at the end of the day, does being responsible really put you on the side of the angels? We're so sedimented with years of responsibility, but this is merely a way to hang onto a sense of control, which is the problem.'
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Okay, "responsibility" probably isn't the best word. The point stands, though. "Real X hasn't been tried" is a formula specially designed for leftists.
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Libertarians?
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Libertarians have the opposite problem. As exemplified by the flood of "Why Libertarians should Learn to Love the Welfare State" articles.
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Thinkers who do accept that past of Marxism typically put it down to it being the nature of the historical dialectic. Problem being that the hermeneutic and metaphyiscal arguments involved are more to do with arguing with other Marxists that outside observers have little bearing.
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E.g. Badiou compared the political experiments of Marxism with Fermats Theorm which remained unsolved for 350 years. Point being that while previous attempts had failed they still yielded useful results and opened up new avenues despite never being the correct one though.
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If you mean his plans for Communism, then it's easy to see what went wrong.
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Should we? Our opponents do well enough imo
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