Marx and Engels operated under the assumption that absent the exploitive aristocrats and bourgeoisie folks would live in harmony, freely sharing the goodies, and only taking what they needed for survival. We have discovered that human beings do not operate that way. Envy, greed, lust, gluttony, anger, pride, and laziness affect all of us to one degree or another. Somehow, the most ruthless and flawed characters wind up in power with humans. It does not seem to matter much what name we give to societies supposed social arrangement or what the official political philosophy is supposed to be.
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