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[+] -7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No you can’t. It collapses on the weight of its own contradictions. Any imposition of socialism without the right material conditions is doomed.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago
    1. What I remember from Marx and/or Engels is that a sharpening of capitalism’s internal contradictions are necessary but not sufficient. Revolution is still needed. We can’t expect some automatic transition from capitalism to socialism.
    2. Marx wasn’t a prophet. The first successful communist revolution happened in Russia under feudalism, not capitalism.
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