(November 24, 2017 at 1:06 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Communism was designed to be introduced in a fully first world country, the ideal at the time he wrote it would have been Germany or England. Unfortunately its only ever been tried in agricultural and struggling nations.
Like trying to cross the sea on a small inflatable giraffe. It may take you some of the way but its not really what it was designed for.
A lot of people press this point. But, I'm curious. Do you think that the Leninist model, if it was applied to a fully industrialized nation, would fare any better? And what about East Germany? I think that Karl Popper was on point when he accused communists of moving the goal post. If Marxism is a science, it has failed to make accurate predictions.
I agree with Peter Singer that communism is a political ideology based on values-- ie. it is not a science. He pointed out that in its day, Hegelian philosophy presented itself as a science (and that this notion kind of rubbed off on Marx). How many of us today would consider Hegelian philosophy to be a science? So it is with Marx.
