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Why is Marxism still a thing? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by Owell1984@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I was wondering why Marxism was still a thing and this placed seemed to be filled with Marxists. So, why? Didn't the fall of USSR teach us anything? Do today's Marxists think that USSR did something wrong? In other words, will they do anything different than the dictators of the soviet union? Also, some here seem to admire Stalin. I would really have to try hard to find a community that would admire Hitler but apparently admiring Stalin, another mass murder seems to be perfectly fine!

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[–] DPUGT2@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago

Didn’t the fall of USSR teach us anything?

That wasn't true Marxism. We can know whether or not it's true Marxism by whether it works or not, and since it didn't work, obviously it wasn't true Marxism.

will they do anything different than the dictators of the soviet union?

The saintly leaders of the Soviet Union were not dictators, but merely custodians of the people's own will.

another mass murder seems to be perfectly fine!

Do not believe the western propaganda. The places he supposedly committed mass murder in do not even exist in reality. Go check a Russian map. This never-never land called Ukraine isn't even real, but a fiction of western imperialists dreamt up to slander the great Russian people and by extension Marxism (or possibly vice versa).