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Old 02-06-2015, 08:53 AM
VanishingPoi VanishingPoi is offline
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
He did espouse action. Some took up his cause. Communist Russia & China each killed as many people give or take as Hitler. Other 'Red' regimes throughout many areas of the world have been/are smaller scale but horrific for the inhabitants. As much as I feel for his message of rule of the common man I'm afraid his Utopia does not exist.

Pete
They misunderstood his meaning. Those are terrible examples. You can't go backwards. You have to work in smaller batches within the system. They used tyrannical approaches.

Marx has nothing to do with Utopia. Not one thing. There is no message, only questions.
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