Why millennials are drawn to socialism

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Let's just say that Karl Marx's philosophy wasn't put into practice and yet he often gets the blame for it. What we call "communism" today isn't the acting out of Marx's communist manifesto.

Even though the Soviet system never implemented the idealized communist system envisioned by Marx, what Karl marx’s envisioned clearly possesses in greater degree all the faults which made the Soviet system uncompetitive in the long run.   Marx even realized others might anticipate that these problems might afflict his system but like many self-styled visionaries he felt it sufficient to assert by fiat, without basis, evidence, or justification that they would in fact not be problems in his ideal system.

So an analogy to the contention that Karl Marx's philosophy wasn't put into practice and he shouldn’t be blame for it might be when some prophet claimed the cure to any sickness is to bash the patient’s skull in.  But one one actually had the tools to do this so his followers settled for pummeling the patient’s faces instead.   When the cure by pummeling the patient’s face is found to not confer the stated benefit and further seem to actually worsen the patient’s health, his followers might assert the prophet shouldn’t be blamed because no one has actually put the prophet to the test by bashing a patient’s skull in.