[meri_dian]

I actually respect a great deal of Marxist and socialist thought about our societies and economic systems. Capitalism has flaws, surely, and pointing them out is important so we can fix them.

But on the whole, much of communist ideology and theorizing is far removed from reality and suffers from a lack of understanding about human nature. Socialist description and perspective on society is interesting and can be enlightening, but its prescriptions are bad.

Many scientists and thinkers over the course of history have dedicated their entire lives to theories that are ultimately shown to be fairy-tails. It happens all the time.