Originally Posted by
tdracer
Pointing out the consistent failure of Marxism is not a straw man argument. It's simply point out documented facts.
I have no truck whatsoever with those who advocate Marxist government, but as a paradigm for economic analysis the work of Marx has been profoundly influential and successful, even amongst many who do not remotely consider themselves Marxists. You wont get far as a student of economics without knowing your Marx. Indeed Marxist *analysis* need not be at odds with capitalism (he highlighted and popularised the significance of capital), even though the implementation of government extrapolated from Marxist-derived principles by Lenin, Stalin, Mao (and the Trotskyist school of thought) proved to be a blight upon the Twentieth Century.
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