[Eric Blair 2084]

You got it all wrong. You are denigrating the brilliant works of scholars like Marx and Engels. Socialism is brilliant in theory...everyone is equal...nobody is hungry.

The problem lied in its execution. You see, Stalin and Lenin were incapable leaders.

If somebody really smart like Hillary or Obama were in charge, than Marx’s philosophy would work.

Shut up and get with the program.

[Vanders9]

Socialism is brilliant in practice too. Everyone is equal. Equally miserable.

[giobruno]

Actually, you are entirely wrong about the theory; it doesn't work in theory either, and never has. It is usually an exercise in fudging the numbers or irrational retribution. The the underlying principles or Marxism are 19th century pseudoscience.

[Mike Powell]

Marx and Engels are not really a pure Socialist but rather a much radical Communist. Although in some general though, they’re quite similar.

And you got that right, Socialism do have their own quality especially in public services where the poor won’t feel the hunger (in capitalist idea, the poor will get poorer and always will).

Although it’s a sad thing that Socialism were once seen as an idea of lower-middle classes’ freedom. But Lenin and Stalin has tainted the true method of Socialism and they too commited the same rules which their former Tsar once applied.