We've seen communism. Cuba, China, Russia, ect. That's communism in the real world. And it sucks.
None of those are communist. At the most, they are state capitalist. You would know this if you had read up on
Marx and Engels.
ie: from
the Manifesto
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of
class struggles”. Marx argued that
capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction.
[2] Just as capitalism replaced
feudalism, communism will in its turn replace capitalism and lead to a
stateless,
classless society which emerging after a transitional period, the '
dictatorship of the proletariat'.
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Clearly that does not describe Cuba, China or USSR/Russia.
20 million dead russians under Stalin?
Terrible.
Lenin was supported by
Stalin and the Bolsheviks. The Mensheviks, including Rosa Luxemburg, opposed what they could see was the opposite of what Marx had written:
She (Rosa) did not like the Russian Communist Party monopolizing all power in the Soviets and expelling anyone who disagreed with it. She feared that Lenin's policy had brought about, not the dictatorship of the working classes over the middle classes, which she approved of but not the dictatorship of the Communist Party over the working classes. The dictatorship of a class - yes, she said, but not the dictatorship of a party over a class. Later, I began to see that Luxemburg had much wisdom in her attitude, though it was not apparent to me at the time.”
British journalist, Morgan Philips Price (a supporter of the Russian Revolution)
After Lenin died, Stalin had complete power and had a brilliance for military strategy, unfortunately he set up a totalitarian state that was kept in place long after Stalin died. Stalin was extremely paranoid and clearly mentally ill.
Stalin then
ditched the Marxist view of world revolution. He now began promoting the idea of “socialism in one country”. Trotsky and most of the other leading Bolsheviks were totally opposed to this change of policy. The only way Stalin could remain in power was to remove his main critic from the government.
......By this time (1938) there was virtually no one left who had taken a major part in the Bolshevik Revolution. The society created by Stalin now had nothing to do with communism and socialism.
It is worth remembering that the West applauded the purge of these Bolsheviks. They fully agreed with Stalin’s policy of socialism (state capitalism) in one country.
It will never be clear how many people Stalin had killed. He probably killed the same amount of people as Tsar Nicholas. 20 million Russians did die holding off the German army.
SS is a ponzi scheme that steals people's money, and thanks to public ed, our kids are some of the dumbest in the first world. Go Marx!
Since none of this has anything to do with Marx, I am unclear what you are trying to say. SS and public education may be a disaster in the USA, but in other nations it is working quite well.
