Why Marxism failed according to Bertrand Russell

[enchanted]

 

[Elliott]

I think it's obvious even marxists don't believe in marxism, for one simple reason; they don't start a Marxist community and grow it. Instead, Marxists want to hijack a capitalist community. Look at their excuses with USSR; " The u.s. isolated them", so, they needed capitalism to survive? USSR was largest empire in history, is there a minimum amount of land area they need that's larger than Siberia? They're binary-thinking idiots, authoritarian cultists.

Edited 6 hours ago by Elliott

[BlueOak]

28 minutes ago, Elliott said:

I think it's obvious even marxists don't believe in marxism, for one simple reason; they don't start a Marxist community and grow it. 

United States

Twin Oaks Community – Virginia
East Wind Community – Missouri
The Farm – Tennessee
Acorn Community – Virginia
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage – Missouri
Amana Colonies – Iowa

Israel

Degania – Israel
Ein Gev – Israel
Kibbutz Lotan – Israel
Kibbutz Ein Harod – Israel

Spain

Marinaleda – Andalusia
Mondragon Corporation – Basque Country

Denmark
Christiania – Copenhagen

France / Switzerland / Austria

Longo Maï – Multiple countries

Germany

Kommune Niederkaufungen – Hesse

United Kingdom

Findhorn Foundation – Scotland

Italy

Damanhur – Piedmont

Japan

Yamagishi Movement – Multiple locations

Canada

Windward Community – British Columbia

Netherlands

Vrije Gemeente – Netherlands

 

36 minutes ago, Elliott said:

 They're idiots, authoritarian cultists.

Always a pleasure.

[BlueOak]

1 hour ago, enchanted said:

 

Fair point. People do get hung up on hatred and rebellion.
This is also true of capitalists against homeless people or those in poverty, however. So its not a direct correlation as to why socialism has not succeeded in the same way capitalism has, otherwise capitalism too would have failed. Or we may argue it has to those in the lower classes or rungs of society.

Capitalism simply outcompeted it, because by design it thrives on competition.

[Elliott]

5 hours ago, BlueOak said:

United States

Twin Oaks Community – Virginia
East Wind Community – Missouri
The Farm – Tennessee
Acorn Community – Virginia
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage – Missouri
Amana Colonies – Iowa

Israel

Degania – Israel
Ein Gev – Israel
Kibbutz Lotan – Israel
Kibbutz Ein Harod – Israel

Spain

Marinaleda – Andalusia
Mondragon Corporation – Basque Country

Denmark
Christiania – Copenhagen

France / Switzerland / Austria

Longo Maï – Multiple countries

Germany

Kommune Niederkaufungen – Hesse

United Kingdom

Findhorn Foundation – Scotland

Italy

Damanhur – Piedmont

Japan

Yamagishi Movement – Multiple locations

Canada

Windward Community – British Columbia

Netherlands

Vrije Gemeente – Netherlands

 

Always a pleasure.

 

6 hours ago, Elliott said:

I think it's obvious even marxists don't believe in marxism, for one simple reason; they don't start a Marxist community and grow it. 

Why don't you join one then, instead of trying to force all of us to convert?

Grow marxism from grassroots, rather than from pirating, is what I was saying.

Go be a successful community, everyone will flock to it and convert. Be a shining light on the hill!

Edited 10 minutes ago by Elliott

[Wilhelm44]

@BlueOak

The Findhorn foundation is a spiritual community, it's not Marxist.