- Why are you mentioning Russia? You do realize they've been capitalist for 30 years now, and that it's transformation to a more fascist state happened in those decades?
- Do you think Cuba was a monarchy, ruled by king Batista, before it fell to communism?
> anywhere Marxism could be falsified it was
Ironically, this is a falsifiable statement. One of the key predictions of Marx is that under capitalism, wealth and property would be concentrated in an increasingly smaller group over time. I would not consider that one as having been falsified.
> I could bust out my old copy of the communist manifesto to check any more predictions he made
That's not a great source for predictions, tbh. It's more of a pamphlet aimed at workers, not so much a theoretical analysis of capitalism or communism. In all fairness though, the books you'd have to read for those predictions are super long and dry, and honestly who has time for that?
- Why are you mentioning Russia? You do realize they've been capitalist for 30 years now, and that it's transformation to a more fascist state happened in those decades?
- Do you think Cuba was a monarchy, ruled by king Batista, before it fell to communism?
> anywhere Marxism could be falsified it was
Ironically, this is a falsifiable statement. One of the key predictions of Marx is that under capitalism, wealth and property would be concentrated in an increasingly smaller group over time. I would not consider that one as having been falsified.
> I could bust out my old copy of the communist manifesto to check any more predictions he made
That's not a great source for predictions, tbh. It's more of a pamphlet aimed at workers, not so much a theoretical analysis of capitalism or communism. In all fairness though, the books you'd have to read for those predictions are super long and dry, and honestly who has time for that?