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Re:Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in... by ue_ on Friday March 17, 2017 @10:32AM (#13894238)
>Sorry, 100 million dead bodies is more than enough to convince me that Marxism doesn't work.

Where did Marx and Engels write about 100M dead bodies?

Re:Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in... by Turing_Machine on Friday March 17, 2017 @06:25PM (#13898520)
Where did the people who invented thalidomide write about deformed babies?

Sorry, not seeing your point here.

If Very Bad Things happen every time a particular idea is put into practice, it's a bad idea, regardless of whether the Very Bad Things were explicitly mentioned when the idea was put forth.

Re:Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in... by dragonwriter on Friday March 17, 2017 @06:30PM (#13898546)
> Where did Marx and Engels write about 100M dead bodies?

More to the point, where did Marx and Engels write about narrow vanguardism instead of broad class consciousness, bypassing capitalism rather than moving forward from it, or any of the other central points of Leninism, which (and not Marxism) is the common ideology shared by the people responsible for those 100 million dead bodies?

The only people trying to put Marxism, rather than Leninism, into effect have been in developed capitalist (and now, in part due to their efforts, post-capitalist mixed) economies.