Marxism For Dummies 10

There’s nothing lacking in the thing itself. In some ways, it’s the very best of us. It’s not like Marx was some egregious elf, or Rosa Luxemburg some succubus. The deal is, if you subjugate the masses, they might not like it. Corner them, and they will fan out fiercely, as do poison gases, and pimps and prelates will be swept away. So simple, so methodical. So why did communism curdle and collapse? One short, scant century it took to die: a flimsy, flawed philosophy, perhaps? We messed up, through our immaturity, the grandeur of that peerless theory.