The Popularity of Marxism
December 22, 2009 9:00 AM   Subscribe

What is the appeal of Marxism? Why does Marxism appeal to so many liberal/progressive/academic types? Isn't a Marxist state an impossible to achieve "ideal"? And haven't the past examples of Marxist states shown that we'd all be worse off?
posted by thenuts to Law & Government (3 answers total)

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It works. They know what works. Isn't any state an impossible etc.? No, not all of us.
posted by box at 9:02 AM on December 22, 2009 [1 favorite]


Because they've studied more politics and philosophy than history.
posted by 517 at 9:03 AM on December 22, 2009


Define Marxism, please. There is a difference between Marxism as a Sovjet-style planned economy with authoritarian proletariat regime and Marxism as a theory.

Marx' Das Kapital is a pretty convincing blackbook of 19th century style capitalism. It's also the result of some very thorough historical research done by Marx. Maybe you should read it?
posted by NekulturnY at 9:08 AM on December 22, 2009


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