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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Presumably, Marx would say that they can't do Marxism without totalitarianism because that goes against the historical dialectic. Before the state can wither away, you must first go through a stage of
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Of course, Marx made a tiny little error in believing that a dictatorship would allow itself to wither away. On the contrary, every state tends to stuff itself with other people's money and power and become
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Perhaps I'm just being egotistical, but I'm sure the world would be better off by replacing Marxism with Maxism. (If you disagree, I will not have you imprisoned or shot.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">--Max</span></div>
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'The Serengeti Rules' - Carroll</div>
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This is extraordinary, practically a course in ecology, told in stories of studies and experiments on lakes, African savannahs, etc.</div>
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He does NOT beat you over the head with stories of pollution and woe. They do get mentioned - esp. phosphate runoff from farmers who use too much fertilizer. And why can't they regulate that? Marxists are a big problem too in Africa. Why can't they try
Marxism without totalitarianism? </div>
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