Most people are not very familiar with the intellectual farce that is Marxism. Marx was into historical materialism, and used his own subjective interpretation of the past to make predictions of the future and validate his economic theories.
The reason why it is hard to take Marxism or any socialism seriously, is because it all hinges on one key idea that was refuted over a hundred years ago by a Austrian named Carl Menger during what is known as the "
marginal revolution". That poor idea is the labor theory of value. Because the labor theory of value is false, and provably so, all of Marx's economic theories are highly questionable, since their common premise is untrue.
This isn't a critique of Marx because I'm some raving right winger. As an economist, he was very poor, as a historian, he was much worse. It is absolutely nuts how much sway he has over catholic social teaching, university and high school level education throughout the world, considering that his ideas were already refuted before they gained any traction.
It's like if schools still taught flat earth geography today, regardless of the fact that such a notion has been disproved long ago.
Consider how amazing it is that religion, which cannot be falsified, is at an all time low in popularity and yet socialism, which has failed repeatedly and can logically be proven incorrect, is stronger than ever before.
@Hellblazer, all government is socialist by nature. Socialism being the abrogation of property rights. You can't have a government without the power to tax, and taxes, are redistribution of property.
Government doesn't become hijacked by communists. It is communist, and then gets worse over time.
