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Patrick Dunford <noname@spammers.go.away> wrote:

>Why has not communism (i.e. Marxism) been able to find solutions either?
>after all they had 70 years in Russia to prove their point

Socialism actually predates Marxism by a good margin.  There are quite a
number of socialist thinkers (such as Bertrand Russell) who wouldn't have a 
bar of Marxism as it was practised in Soviet Russia.

I think one major difficulty with Marx is that he prophesied revolution but
didn't offer any model for post-revolutionary society.  Lenin attempted to
fill that gap and bred a disaster.

Another difficulty with Marx is that he assumed capitalism couldn't be
moderated to make it more civilised and acceptable to the bulk of society.
It followed that revolution was historically inevitable due to the inexorable
rise of popular discontent with capitalism.  It's hard for me to see how this
position can be maintained post-Keynes.

In short, I think it's time we discarded Marx and took a fresh look at
socialism.

TM