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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I would add the religious reverence for Marx so many Communist societies had.

Marx was excellent at analyzing the problem. But his ideas how to solve it were bad.

Most Communist countries stuck to ideological purity to an extreme and never tried different approaches.