Reply #157: What don't you understand? [View All]

Marxism was tried, and found wanting. If your car wouldn't run unless the outside temperature was 75 F, and the humidity comfortable, the sky was blue, and it was loaded with beautiful blondes, would you consider it a useful mechanism? Theories, such as Marxism, are fine, although I think the ideas of Marxism are evil in and of themselves, but that's something to discuss elsewhere. But theories MUST match the real world, or they are discarded. At least in the sciences. Which by the way is what Marx claimed his theory was: scientific.

Marxism has failed because the conditions that you consider necessary will never occur. People will always do what is best for them, not the community. Yes, acts of charity and compassion will occur, but people look out for themselves and their families first. This is human nature, and it cannot be changed. THE IDEA OF MARXISM IS FLAWED, INCORRECT, ERRONEOUS.

How many more millions of human lives are you personally willing to spend in the attempt to make this monstrous idea work? Because that is what it has taken in every case Marxism, of any stripe, has been tried.

Socialism is not a new idea. The early Christians tried it without much success (Acts 4:43 through Acts 5:11). If is was going to work at all, there would have been a successful Marxist state by now.

So yes, Marxism and communism is evil.