Self-Termination The Likely Outcome For "Goliath" Societies Where Inequality Reigns - Think Rome, Han China, And Us

[Farmer-Rick]

14. Marx did not advocate Marxism

He felt it was more like spin than a real program.

He wrote in a letter "What is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist."

It was in response to French Marxists going around and sloganeering, not having a good theoretical basis for what they were purporting to have supported.

If on the other hand, you are talking about Socialism, he supported that more. Though he really thought Communism was the best but not the kind of Communism practiced in the USSR.

It seems to me that the problems with most types of Socialism and Communism implemented so far have had one big failure. They failed to give control (of the means of production) to the workers.

In the USSR the control was handed over to political leaders who acted as badly as capitalists. Marx thought the people would vote out anyone who failed to use that control fairly and equally. Well you' ve seen how the voting public can be easily manipulated. Especially if you have Musk controlled voting machines.

In China, they handed the control to one political party who then gave it to a dictatorial leader.

I don't think democracy is compatible with capitalism. Anytime you allow large amounts of wealth to be controlled by a handful of people you run into serious problems. Because in capitalism money is power and then the handful takeover.

What we need is a more democratic form of economics. Capitalism is not the answer even when combined with socialism, democracy or Marxism.