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Originally Posted by deepsepia
Argument ad hominem is not strong.
There are plenty of folks who dislike Marxism because they observe that its vague on something important: freedom. Marxists are cheerfully blasé about "the dictatorship of the proletariat"
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That is, of course, just part of the truth. The whole truth is that it has never been tried within democratic conditions. We therefore have no practical experience that could be related in this context. Any comparisons in this respect are exclusively of a speculative nature.
Btw, there is absolutely no contradiction between a democracy and a socialist economy based on Marxist theory. Actually, one is just the confirmation of the other.
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Originally Posted by deepsepia
-- me, I'm not at all cheerful about any dictatorship.
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Well, that is exactly what you are. No offense.
'Americans think they live in a democracy. But their workplaces are small tyrannies.'
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/201...markets-unions