- 18 Jul 2021 17:47
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I agree with you. "True Marxism" is an utopia. The hope to have abundance is unrealisable. It is firstly unrealisable in capitalism because there happens to be always new wants and secondly in a planning system because of its inefficiency.
I recently read "The Revolution Betrayed" of Leon Trotsky (1936 in exile), a radical criticism of Stalinism. I found it very interesting and precursory of many ideas present in Volensky's "Nomenklatura". But he did not leave the hope of abundance, where I cannot follow him. He also thought that a dictatorship could mutate in a full democracy by itself when it has realised its job (preparation of socialism). That is also utopian.
Ivan_R wrote:I doubt such a phenomenon as "true marxism" is possible somewhere outside of Marx's works.
I agree with you. "True Marxism" is an utopia. The hope to have abundance is unrealisable. It is firstly unrealisable in capitalism because there happens to be always new wants and secondly in a planning system because of its inefficiency.
I recently read "The Revolution Betrayed" of Leon Trotsky (1936 in exile), a radical criticism of Stalinism. I found it very interesting and precursory of many ideas present in Volensky's "Nomenklatura". But he did not leave the hope of abundance, where I cannot follow him. He also thought that a dictatorship could mutate in a full democracy by itself when it has realised its job (preparation of socialism). That is also utopian.
Paul Jael