[zahlman]

>You have conjured up some non-existent system Marx supposedly wanted to put in place, then you say it was a failure, then you admonish people for not seeing Marx's system did not fail. What system? He explicitly said he had none.

No, I have not. I have pointed at every national-scale real-world system which its proponents argued to be intended as Marxist.

> How has that failed.... "Well, Marx's picture is there, but it's not real Marxist" people respond.

Now who is conjuring non-existent things?

Or are you seriously arguing that China is an example of "the most advanced country" which "[is] ready for [Marxism]" in the modern age, and that Maoism is an example of Marxism which you wish to claim as a success (while denying any Russian regime such status), and that "by some measures the largest economy in the world" (with several times the population of the USA) is ipso facto a success?

I don't think your argument merits a serious response, but there's a passing attempt anyway.