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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (377455)7/19/2018 10:22:03 AM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) of 542979
 
Yes. The thing to note is that depending on which one of his writings you read, he was not so much prescribing a form of government than he was predicting how the society would evolve. It is more correct to say that the revolutionaries hijacked Marx's ideas in order to distill a sense of inevitability to their success. Otherwise, their followers may not have risked their lives just to see a new king coming to power. His mistake was that he thought he can predict social developments with the same precision that a chemist can predict the chemical process. He would have been shocked (and I suspect recant/highly modify) his ideas had he lived long enough to see the Russian revolution. Russia (and China) never went through the phases he had imagined.
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