[stener]

Marx theory is really deeply flawed, because he regards masses as controlling units of society. But in real world, who controls masses? Some individuals because masses can not decide for themselves without individuals deciding for themselves. The idea of masses act as single unity without influence of only few gifted individuals does not stand.

And it's utopia to think that gifted individuals are always nice people, which reality proved many times.

[steveklabnik]

You have very serious misconceptions about Marxism.

> The idea of masses act as single unity without influence of only few gifted individuals does not stand.

This is not true.

> And it's utopia to think that gifted individuals are always nice people, which reality proved many times.

Marxism does not make ethical assertions about people and their actions. Marx takes great pains in Capital to divorce his theories from ethics, though occasionally he uses some metaphors that imply a personal ethics.

[stener]

No, fortunately I don't. The concept of masses as ruling body is flawed because individuals constituted masses and masses are moved by only few individuals at the end as was proved by history and as it was objected before it was taken seriously. It's a naive concept. Tell me, how in the real world does masses actually decide correctly without being first constituted by rational individuals? And if you put individual before masses, you are not talking about Marxism.