Not so, unfortunately, for Marxism. It drives me sheer up the wall how all around me I run into these dupes.
"The communist ideal is still as valid as ever, only it has been implemented wrong."
Aaaargh!!!
I've heard it more times than I care to remember; the last time from a schoolteacher with eternal job security and an outrageously high salary for which I - a self-employed translator and interpreter - pay through the extortionate taxes the government is taking from me so that he can indoctrinate the next generation.
I am no believer in the crackpot "science" of Siegmund Freud (Karl Kraus wrote that psychonalysis is itself the disease which it claims to cure), but maybe he was on to something when he identified a "death drive" in humans that complements the sex drive.
How else to explain that ostensibly sane adults continue to believe in Marxism and its watered-down cousin socialism?
Now excuse me please so I can go bang my head on the wall some more.