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MedeaLysistrata posted...

so you're not going to explain how most capitalist countries that weren't colonies, or financed by the US almost entirely, are still poor?

EDIT: as i'm sure you've been able to deduce from the points I listed, no I don't think socialism is viable. fwiw "Marxism" refers to the economic theory, not the political model.

You want me to get into the geopolitical reasons that explain why some countries are still poor? Lol sorry but that's such an involved question that I'm not going to just jump on command, especially since it has nothing to do with the topic.

Antifar posted...

Marxism has shaped the capitalism we have today. The gains made by the working classes over the past 150 years are in large part due to class struggle, and the efforts by people who would have been familiar with his work or ideas, if they weren't out and out socialists themselves. The eight-hour workday, the weekend, those are the products of class struggle.

Marxism does not own class struggle. We would have class struggle and the fight for worker's rights even if Marxism never existed. Regardless, this is completely irrelevant to the topic as it says absolutely nothing about the viability of Marxism.

Kazi1212 posted...

Precisely. People just dont see how political ideas of magnitude such as Marxism has forever changed how states and economies are run

Sure if you want to project those ideas onto Marxism as if they were the only source of such ideas. But again, irrelevant to the topic, which is solely asking if Marxism is viable.
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