Everyone talks about hypothetically going back in time to kill Hitler, but no one talks about hypothetically going back in time to kill Marx.
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A theory is only correct if it has predictive as well as descriptive power. Marx failed to predict the horrors of Stalinism because his understanding of history, morality, and economics was wrong. Darwin successfully predicted Morgan's sphinx moth. The theory itself, much more.
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Marx theory had a number of flaws, but it might turn out to be essentially correct once AI destroys the labor based economy...
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Marx did not think that communism would happen through gulags, but through efficiency gains and resulting unemployment and market collapse.
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Communism is not a framework in which Bolsheviks kill kulaks, but the idea of a post labor economy with communally owned means of production
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