2006-10-22 22:44:41 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
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2006-10-23 01:02:18 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it is.
What most people don't realize about Marxism is that Marx thought people knew what is better for them than markets (the Marxism-Leninism and Stalinism of the Soviet Union and other countries were twisted Marxisms that diverged from his original small 'd'-democratic ideal).
Markets are greedy, irrational, amoral and consequently inefficient and unjust.
Marxism is idealistic, but not utopian. What's the difference? Idealism is possible but utopia is unreachable.
Supercomputing makes the idea of an efficient, rational, just and equitable economy possible. Now we just need the economic models and the political will to manage our economies with more sense.
2006-10-23 08:40:15 · answer #2 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is an old joke which goes like this , in good old soviet union a official from the ministry of propoganda was interviewing a peasant in the russian country side "comrade if you have two cows will you give one two your comrade next door who has none?" "sure I would comrade"replied the peasant " "and would you share one of your two cows with a comrade who has none" "sure I would" again the peasant replied ,"and would you share one of your horses with a brother who has none?" "never" replied the peasant "but why comrade if you can share your cows and goats why not your horse?" the official persisted, the peasants reply was "because I have two horses"
This joke in a way sums up the structural problem with marxism " power to the people "begs an answer, to which people ?simply, to the people who shout the slogans, the basic nature of a human being allows him to think and work only for himself or herself, this has been adequately explained by Ayn Rnd in her book The Virtue of Selfishness. Marxism does not work,the egalitarian society it propounds is not just utopian but impossible to be applied to any complex social structure. The need is to evolve a concept which finds the "ends" of marxism without applying its means.
2006-10-23 06:42:31 · answer #3 · answered by srisri c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Communism and Marxism are not the same thing. Saying that Marxism killed people is like saying Theodore Roosevelt led in WWII. Just as Teddy and Frank were two completely different people, related, so is Marxism and Communisim. True Marxism is unattainable, as its based on the concept that anyone who works gets their nessecities met. Communisim is based on that idea, but corrpted.
2006-10-23 09:02:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the 20th century Marxism was responsible for at least 135 million murders or more in countries such as the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Central and South America, Cuba, and Grenada, and several African Nations.
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2006-10-23 05:50:32 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because of Karl Marx and his ideas MILLIONS are dead. Don't tell me in paper its wonderful because every single communist state never followed his "paper version" and so Marxism/Communism is accepted as the versions practised by China, USSR, North Korea, not his idea which hasn't been followed by the book ever. Accept that pure Marxism will never ever work.
It never has. That is a stone cold fact.
60,000,000+ dead in the People's Republic of China
45,000,000+ dead in the USSR
14% of Vietnam was wiped out because of the Vietnam war which came around because of the spread of Communism.
Korean War (also about the spread of Communism) caused 2,500,000 deaths.
Communism, Marxism, Socialism, Leninism, Maoism... when it comes down to it all results in mass murder.
2006-10-23 08:33:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marxism is not a Utopian concept. It can be materialised. But with the world driving towards capitalist movement, it will never be.
2006-10-23 05:48:57 · answer #7 · answered by Aaryan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It truely is.
And as with many "utopian theories", the Marxism only works in theory, but a failuer in the real life.
2006-10-23 06:16:52 · answer #8 · answered by davegesprek 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think the whole concept of communism is Utopian.
2006-10-23 11:55:34 · answer #9 · answered by Brahmanda 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Only on paper. Never in the real world.
The human factor always undermine the principle
with Humanistic behavior, such as greed, wants, desires,
power and many other egotistical tools to enrich our worthiness to others. All societies has capitalism in the core of its base.
2006-10-23 06:34:39 · answer #10 · answered by TOM P 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the beginning, it used 2 B, not any longer.
2006-10-23 07:00:02 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋