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>>950957

Marxism is actually a incredibly smart system and on a theoretical base it absoloutley smashes capitalism.

People have problem in its application to real life though, some things do not cross over from theory to the real world easy, they try to contend that the sociology and economic problems that in the past have been associated with communism and Marxism are based in its ideology and ideas as opposed to flaws in common sociology and economics that are non-Marxist specific (aka, they affect both systems equally).

Marxists counter this argument by saying although there are problems in the general system, Marxism as opposed to capitalism seeks to actively fix these problems when they come up through ideological revision (So the Marxist ideological progression, aka Orthodox Marxism > Leninism > Maoism > Hoxhaism > Juche > 5th Int) as opposed to capitalists that see the problems as not only unsolvable, but in their interests to make sure that the problem remains unsolved.

Aka, People tend to scapegoat Marxism for generic economic and social problems, the main difference is that Marxism aims to try and solve these problems for the common good, where is in capitalism they tend to be self perpetuating as its in the financial interests of a few people to keep it that way.

If you actually find someone that is educated in Marxist economics and sociology they would be able to explain and counter almost everything down to very fine detail (Marxism is one of the most heavily studied areas in politics, economics, sociology and philosophy, there are literally entire organisations that argue Marxist interpretation in academic senses), problem is that there are very few of these people in the west (for cultural reasons) so people tend to get away with thinking Marxists know little about economics and real life.

I'm not one of them, i just take a personal interest to it, i can give good overviews but tend to fall short in the detail.