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**Eromereorybig** · 01-19-2009, 11:39 AM

There's the rub. For so many Marxists, questioning Marx is like questioning God. Yet, one of the most important things Marx ever wrote is not applied to Marx himself, "question everything!" Marx himself wrote that his earlier writings had been superseded by time. In his introduction to the Communist Manifesto in 1873, he wrote that much of the Manifesto was obsolete, but that as it was an historical document, he had no right to change it. Given that it was a programmatic statement of an actual political organization, Marx is correct, but it would have been nice for him to do it anyway. No one remembers the Communist League anymore. Everyone still knows who Marx was.

I am being sincere

I think that the problem for communists is that all they have to offer is the proletarian dictatorship with economies planned by the state.

The state will never disappear and the ideal communist society will never be reached. Those are the most kingdom of heaven/religious aspects of marxism.

If I were a commie I would look at the soviet experience and think, what could we have done better to make the "soviet" citizens happier? Ang go from there (spend more in consumer good, give them freedom of religion, etc)

01-19-2009, 11:39 AM	#12
Eromereorybig Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 469 Senior Member	There's the rub. For so many Marxists, questioning Marx is like questioning God. Yet, one of the most important things Marx ever wrote is not applied to Marx himself, "question everything!" Marx himself wrote that his earlier writings had been superseded by time. In his introduction to the Communist Manifesto in 1873, he wrote that much of the Manifesto was obsolete, but that as it was an historical document, he had no right to change it. Given that it was a programmatic statement of an actual political organization, Marx is correct, but it would have been nice for him to do it anyway. No one remembers the Communist League anymore. Everyone still knows who Marx was. I am being sincere I think that the problem for communists is that all they have to offer is the proletarian dictatorship with economies planned by the state. The state will never disappear and the ideal communist society will never be reached. Those are the most kingdom of heaven/religious aspects of marxism. If I were a commie I would look at the soviet experience and think, what could we have done better to make the "soviet" citizens happier? Ang go from there (spend more in consumer good, give them freedom of religion, etc)
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