| > Your summarization of Marxism as an appeal to jealousy is a reductionist joke. It's common sense. At best, people will support a system where wealth is distributed without regard to individual productivity if they think that they will get more out of it than they put in. At worst, it's crab mentality: https://fee.org/articles/crabs-and-communists-how-envy-polit... I'm no Marxist scholar but looking at Marxism's core ideals, particularly the idea of a "dictatorship of the proletariat," I can see that attempts to implement them will always result in atrocity. Even Marx admitted that his new society would be born in blood and terror. "The purposeless massacres perpetrated since the June and October events, the tedious offering of sacrifices since February and March, the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror." https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/11/06.htm |