Relevance of Marxism

[LouPaulsen]

jks:
"Third, I can think of no instance in history when an ideology or movement
that has suffered the kind of defeat Marxism has suffered has made a
comeback.

Oh, I can think of several.  The rise of Alexander the Great, which put an
end to all experiments with democracy in the Hellenic world.  The overturn
of the Roman Republic.  The consistent and complete defeat of the slave
rebellions in Sicily and Italy.  The feudal counterrevolution in 13th- and
14th-century Italy (you won't see any more of that bourgeois rule crap!)
The English Restoration of 1661.  The Congress of Vienna, which pretty much
put an end to the ideology of the French Revolution.  And where did Radical
Republicanism go after 1876?

In any case you have to distinguish between defeats suffered by classes,
parties, governments; and refutations of particular tenets of particular
schools of Marxism; and the "defeat of Marxism", as a paradigm.

lp