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Originally Posted by jammies
The same follows for political philosophy, the problems with, for example, Marxism, come from it predicting the end point of an industrial future that did not come to pass. The working class did not rise up, unless by "rise up" you mean transform itself into a richer and more influential middle class.
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Well, I mean the first regime to adopt a perverse version of it revolutionized a massive country, with a largely dispersed population, operating under an agrarian feudal system, and on the brink of total collapse into an industrial superpower capable of reaching space within a manner of decades, despite global resistance and subversion.
I'm not attempting to romanticize the Soviets or trivialize the atrocities of that regime but those are impressive accomplishments by almost any standard.