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Originally posted by Strange Famous
As I have said, several times, there has not ever been an existing socialist or communist nation state. Some states have called themselves socialist, but they are not what I, or Marx, or history, will call socialists.
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Nor will there ever be. Marx was a fantastic economist, but he was also a utopian, and his vision is laced with the same fundamental flaw as every utopian, from More to Swift to Bacon. He fails to deal with the human condition of greed.