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Re:Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism’s flaws is surprisingly re... by jeffreyrogers on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:35AM (#16994863)
Marx literally calls for centralization in his writings. And in practice there is always centralization in Communist regimes.
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Re:Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism’s flaws is surprisingly re... by dragonwriter on Friday May 04, 2018 @11:00AM (#16995031)
> Marx literally calls for centralization in his writings.

Marxism isn't all of Communism.

> And in practice there is always centralization in Communist regimes.

All actual Communist regimes have been based in Leninism and it's derivatives, which are a small subset (in terms of schools of theory) of derivatives of Marxism, which themselves, again, don't constitute all of Communism.

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