Ass? Hole in the Ground? Hmmmmmm . . .
"To explain why the advanced capitalist countries have failed to go socialist in the hundred years since the publication of the Manifesto is certainly not easy, and we know of no satisfactory analysis which is specifically concerned with this problem. But it would be a poor compliment to the authors of the Manifesto, who have given us all the basic tools for an understanding of the nature of capitalism and hence for an understanding of our own epoch, to evade a problem because they themselves did not pose it and solve it. Let us therefore indicate -- as a stimulus to study and discussion rather than as an attempt at a definitive answer -- what seem to us to be the main factors which have to be taken into account."
-- The Communist Manifesto after 100 Years, Paul M. Sweezy and Leo Huberman
-- The Communist Manifesto after 100 Years, Paul M. Sweezy and Leo Huberman
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Marx was an idiot when it came to economics. Also when it came to understanding human nature.
The main problem with the "ideal" of communism is that nobody thought to ask the question: who decides?
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.Who decides what your ability is? Who decides what your needs are? Who decides who decides? What criteria are used? Why? Who dicides the criteria? And so on.
Sweezy and Huberman should read an economics book. I'd suggest they start with Applied Economics by Thomas Sowell
Conservative in Virgina:
Thank you for the recommendation! Looks like a very good book. I will get it.
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