Everyone talks about hypothetically going back in time to kill Hitler, but no one talks about hypothetically going back in time to kill Marx.
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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According to Marx, communism would happen after and in response to the inevitable failure of capitalism, not in competition to it
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That's just another way to say he was wrong. It's also not entirely correct. Marx advocated for stripping the rights of the bourgeoisie class. Even if he thought that it would happen in a non-violent way, there is no reason to not resort to violence under that moral framework.
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