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In his book, he charts the course of human history and tries to predict where it will end up. He comes to the conclusion that a violent revolution will soon come to pass as the workers overthrow their bosses and start sharing resources.
"Soon come to pass" was 150 years ago, the Revolution hasn't happened. Marxist scholars since then have been recreating the letters between early Christians asking why He hadn't returned yet as promised and pushing the date of the Second Coming back.
In my opinion, Marx wrote his conclusion first, then cherry picked the points in history that supported his conclusion.
Maybe read a history book?
I seems to recall the US losing a war to communists in the 1970s for instance.
The US lost a war to Vietnamese nationalists that adopted the trappings of Communism in order to get materiel support from China. They rejected it, and China, as soon as possible
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam
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That doesn't sound very communist to me, and I've heard plenty of times that a mixed economy isn't a socialist one at all.
Or is that only when it's a European country?
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