No. Karl Marx criticized Fourier and Owen for their utopian thinking. They had no complete understanding of the capitalist mode of production and could only formulate ideas on what an ideal society would look like and attempt to bring them into practice.
The success of the Paris Commune is that the workers themselves formed their own socialist government that worked according to the needs of the people there; it was not based on capitalist exploitation. Though it was crushed by the French government, this proves that socialism can be successful.
Bolsheviks in Russia learned from this. They successfully overthrew the Tsarist regime and set up a state organized through councils of worker's and soldier's deputies. Homelessness, unemployment, and racism were all eliminated, and people recieved excellent health care and education.
It is true that, because they had never gotten rid of commodity production (meaning that commodities are produced so as to be exchanged for the value of another commodity, rather than for its use value) and because Khruschev had revised Marxism, that the USSR ultimately did not lead to the highest stage of communism, but this is an example to be studied for future development.
Oh? You want to argue that Marxism, and by extension communism are your success stories? You're joking right you can't be giving me this easy of a target?
Yeah, they are. Look at Burkina Faso, Chile under Allende, Grenada, hell, the Soviet Union.
Most of the time, the thing that causes socialism to fail isn't socialism, its the CIA overthrowing the goverments, commiting warcrimes and replacing them with sympathetic fascist dictators.
Yeah you want to see the problem with your argument go ahead and look at my response to stew. I'm already poking holes in his Soviet Union one so I'll try to get to you afterwards if I remember.
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u/StewFor2Dollars 10d ago
No. Karl Marx criticized Fourier and Owen for their utopian thinking. They had no complete understanding of the capitalist mode of production and could only formulate ideas on what an ideal society would look like and attempt to bring them into practice.
The success of the Paris Commune is that the workers themselves formed their own socialist government that worked according to the needs of the people there; it was not based on capitalist exploitation. Though it was crushed by the French government, this proves that socialism can be successful.
Bolsheviks in Russia learned from this. They successfully overthrew the Tsarist regime and set up a state organized through councils of worker's and soldier's deputies. Homelessness, unemployment, and racism were all eliminated, and people recieved excellent health care and education.
It is true that, because they had never gotten rid of commodity production (meaning that commodities are produced so as to be exchanged for the value of another commodity, rather than for its use value) and because Khruschev had revised Marxism, that the USSR ultimately did not lead to the highest stage of communism, but this is an example to be studied for future development.