[Borges]

I love it when people slice it this thin. Marx wrote a little pamphlet called The Communist Manifesto. So what's the difference?

Marxism isn't really a form of government. It's a theory of history. He didn't write much about actual communism in practice just mostly elucidating his theory of history and criticizing capitalism. So whatever thug comes around can just impose their ideas on top of what was a pretty thin idea to begin with.

[TradicalRC]

Marxism isn't really a form of government. It's a theory of history. He didn't write much about actual communism in practice just mostly elucidating his theory of history and criticizing capitalism. So whatever thug comes around can just impose their ideas on top of what was a pretty thin idea to begin with.

Um, no. His Das Kapital may have contained his ideas on human and history in general and economic theory in particular but The Communist Manifesto is a political tract advocating the dictatorship of the proletariat, written specifically for the Communist League in London.