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A critique of Marx: Why Communism never works

Whenever readers and history enthusiasts discover the appalling corners of the Russian revolution and the ideas of Marxism and along with it, the brutal atrocities like Mao China or the famine under Stalin and Co. The picture that gets painted in the mind of the reader is a rather confusing yet interesting one. But further inspection, one very often than not might recognize and consider Marx to be a true hero, Someone who stood up for equality against the oppressive elite, A revolutionary thinker who predicted the shortcomings of capitalism before it even took its course completely. Marx sure was a revolutionary thinker, And he contributed a lot in how we think of capitalism and is the most effective critique of it. But these conceptions don’t fall in alignment with the historical version of communism and The atrocities it has produced in the last 100 years. Now before you head to the comments storming about how “IT-WASNT-REAL-COMMUNISM!!1”, I understand that argument but since m...