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Re:A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Ineq... by 0181109 on Monday November 19, 2018 @05:00PM (#18490107)
Probably because the implementations tried have failed so badly. If people distanced themselves from the hammer and sickle, communism could possibly be given another chance but in the meantime it looks like people showing that icon either don't know about history or they have explained it away quite callously.
Re:A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Ineq... by dragonwriter on Monday November 19, 2018 @05:12PM (#18490192)
> Probably because the implementations tried have failed so badly

Implementations of Leninism did, sure, but (deliberate mislabeling aside), I'm not sure what that has to do with Marc, since Leninism rejected the preconditions Marx laid out and altered the approach to address the changed preconditions.

Leninism is farther from Marxism than the near-universal abandonment of the system Marx named “capitalism” for modern mixed economies (which, to be sure, is still pretty far from Marxism), so if you are going to blame Marx at all for the failure of the former, you have to credit him at least as much for the success of the latter.

Re:A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Ineq... by 0181109 on Monday November 19, 2018 @06:26PM (#18490623)
Well could people who do understand Marx (by your interpretation, at least) do more in distancing themselves from Leninism and the hammer and sickle?
Re:A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Ineq... by danharaj on Monday November 19, 2018 @05:03PM (#18490128)
I mean, Marx specifically thought that communism could not be achieved by jumping from a pre-industrialized economy and skipping capitalism.