Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:46:31 -0500, David G. Nagel wrote:

It should be noted that several years after he wrote Das Capital (sp)
Karl Marx decided that communism would not work as a practical matter.
In 1991 he was proven right by the fall of the Soviet Union.

Very few people would claim that the Soviet Union practiced communism.
They were just another dictatorship that used communism as a prop.

However, Marx was right when he said it wouldn't work. Its main fallacy
was ignoring human nature.


Like you, I don't claim that pure communism is practiced anywhere.