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elzbardicotoday at 12:54 AM0 repliesview on HN

Soviet Ideology and Lenin in particular deturpated Marxism.

For Marx, capitalism is historically revolutionary precisely because it expands productive forces at a scale impossible under feudalism. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels explicitly say the bourgeoisie created “more massive and more colossal productive forces” than earlier generations, and then argue that capitalism becomes self-contradictory because those productive forces outgrow capitalist property relations, producing crises of overproduction and destruction of wealth.

We can even say, that is a strict reading of Marx, communism is impossible if the problem of scarcity hasn't been solved before.

Marxism requires abundance as a material precondition for higher communism