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Do you also blame Nietzsche for Nazism?

Marx analysed quite correctly the era he lived in and the problem with capitalism. He was just wrong to think that this would never change.

For instance today may of us are the owners of our own means of production. You don't need your employer to buy you a machine and they can't just replace you without having lost the knowledge that you represent.

Marx didn't live in such a world and thus his premise wasn't universal enough.



> Do you also blame Nietzsche for Nazism?

Of course not. Marx was directly responsible for Communism because he laid the blueprints, and the USSR implemented them. Therefore, Marx is responsible for the USSR.


But communism was not what happened in the USSR.


Yes, it was. It's dishonest to claim that your system has never been tried when it has been tried and failed.

You can go down the list of things the Communist Manifesto proposed and see that the USSR did all of them: http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/Marxism.html


Ahh yeah when you are out of arguments go for the persons motives right? Where have I ever claimed to that communism was my system? Pray tell.

I think you need to read up on history my friend. And perhaps read the actual work of Marx before being so cock sure about what you are claiming.

Then we can have an adult discussion about the many issues with communism.


Your condescension means you didn't read my cite or engage me honestly at all. And I even picked out the easy-to-read citation, too.




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