>>47869271You're horribly wrong anon. Since the 90s nobody besides a bunch of tankies believe in orthodox Marxism-Leninism. And you have lots and lots of examples of why it doesn't work in Eastern Europe and Cuba, namely Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Albania, Eastern Germany and the post-Soviet states, each one championing itself on which one was the most orthodox with Marxist ideas.
Of course billionaires support communism because most communist states ARE sweatshops, with rules they dream they in their countries, such as unperson everyone that criticize the dictator; and blackmail the person and their family with not having food if they don't sympathize with the cause. For example, Venezuela champions itself with being "anti-yankee" but they spread their legs open when it comes to China and Russia. They also condition food rationing to have what they call "Carnet de la Patria", which implies a type of covenant with the PSUV party.
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>>47869501 pinpointed, because of automation of production, after the 50s elementary things such as food dropped in price, so many workers didn't want to risk themselves into embark on revolution and instead they aspired to live a normal life, so the mantra "not having anything to lose but their chains" didn't stick; and that's why communist states fell one by one in the 80s and 90s.
That's why Marxism had to revise itself in order to get people to stick to revolution. Gramsci thought they should start attacking the cultural, Christian roots of society, the Frankfurt school thought they should go by the way of accelerating the contradictions of liberalism, Guy Debord thought they should weaponize arts and culture, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari thought they should use the desires of the people to make them aspire to return to monkey; and the Tiqqun collective's publications are the fundamentals of every black bloc group you could find last year.
