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This is why I wish Marx's thoughts were actually gone over in standard philosophy/economics/history college curricula. For having had such a deep impact on the world, the average level of comprehension about what Marxism even was among well educated people is so frightfully low. The fact that so many conflate it with central planning and state capitalism is a clear example of it. If we ever hope to understand, in a thorough and critical way, why Marxism in the 20th century was a failed project, we need to actually learn what it was.