Yet Russia has a flat tax, if I’m not mistaken. Real Marxists believe in progressive taxation. Putin is a authoritarian statist, but I don’t think he’s really Marxist anymore (if he ever was)
#58. What you are saying is that Putin is “A Marxist in Name Only” but is really just a “Thug Crook in a Suit”.
Can’t argue with that.
Flat taxes can be progressive in nature. The Manifesto mentions “a heavy progressive or graduated income tax” as Plank 2 of communism; it does not get any more specific than that.