Marxism is a science

Joe R. Golowka joeG at ieee.org
Thu Jan 3 12:04:08 PST 2002



> Marxism is a science
>
> Cian O'Conner:
> How would you set out to disprove Marx's maxim about
> the inevitability of revolution? Maybe you can, but
> noone has managed it, or tried really.
>
> %%%%%
>
> CB: Hasn't this maxim been _proved_ a dozen times since Marx ?

No. The advanced industrialized countries, which should have been the first to have revolutions, never experienced Socialist Revolutions. And in countries that did have Marxist revolutions those revolutions did not turn out the way Marx claimed they would (no state withering away and all that).



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