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I remember learning about communism back in high school and being in awe about it. A society where everyone was economically equal? “How fascinating!” I thought to myself, disregarding the fact that my grandfather fought against communism during the war and my dad being a refugee himself. It’s easy to say that communism is perfect for creating an equal and fair society, a utopia. As @erodriguez317 says “Marx’s ideas were not meant to become evil but more of a harmonious way of living“. It’s also easy to forget that Marx’s communism (or Marxism) was primarily an economic system not a political ideology that had been twisted by the likes of Mao Tse-tung and Stalin. To be fair, they probably did apply communism in the beginning but in the end, they really focused more on a central power taking over the entirety of not just the economy, but the entire country itself (looking at you China, Vietnam, and North Korea).
If we were to really analyze Marx’s claims further, I believe we can come to the conclusion that communism was an answer to the problem of his time. If conditions never worsened during the Industrial Revolution for the working classes, Marx would never have had to come to the result of communism being the ultimate answer for ending class struggle. And if Marx never developed this ideology, important communist nations would not have had a platform to revolutionize upon such as the Soviet Union and China. I know I’m talking about hypothetical “what-ifs” but I think it’s important to note that if the conditions of the working class were not bad, Marx would not have had an incentive to revolutionize. Maybe perhaps that’s why today, communism wouldn’t really work. Is it because of the much better working conditions? Or has communism just doesn’t work? I can agree with both.