Fatal Errors of Marxism and the Problems of Modern Democracy

FATAL ERRORS

OF MARXISM

AND THE

PROBLEMS

OF MODERN

DEMOCRACY

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Fatal Errors of Marxism and the Problems of Modern Democracy

Copyright © 2021 by Victor Mikhol

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CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION

II. MARXISM THROUGH THE EYES OF A SOVIET ENGINEER

III. MAIN FALLACIES OF MARXISM

IV. PROBLEM OF DEMOCRACY

I.

INTRODUCTION.

Icame to the USA after the collapse of the USSR, which happened shortly after the predatory privatization of state property. In the newly formed republics, harmful socialist habits proved to be very strong, which led to rampant criminalization, theft, nationalism, corruption, etc. People were completely at a loss, and during the very first elections, a significant number of them voted for the old communist leaders, which, as they remembered, could provide at least some order.

The transition of power to many old acquaintances testified only that one should not expect any changes for the better in the near future. This was understandable to many who wanted to move somewhere, wherever there was nothing reminiscent of socialism, except for social protection. I was happy to end up in such a country - the USA. I dreamed of visiting this country from a young age when I became completely disappointed in the Marxist idea. I knew that the Communist Party, which had ruined the lives of hundreds of millions of people, was banned in America. I hoped that even in the worst nightmare I would no longer think about Marxism. However, now I have to.

When in this country, which I had fallen in love with, I saw and heard the worst version of the Marxism rhetoric performed by local left-wing democrats, I realized that I had buried the damned teaching too soon. I was struck by the fact mentioned in an article that the experts of the Open Syllabus Project (2016) studied the programs of universities in the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand and found out that the Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels closes the top three most studied books in the universities of these countries. The very same work was in the first place among books used for the study assignments for American students in such states as Washington, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Indiana.

History, as usual, does not teach anything even with its latest examples. Then I had decided, hoping it could help somehow, to present the results of decades of my experience in analyzing communist theory, as well as the problems of modern democracy associated with it.

II.

MARXISM THROUGH THE EYES OF A SOVIET ENGINEER.

The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defense of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy, and French socialism.

Icited the beginning of V. Lenin’s article The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism popular among the Communists (and not only among them), which allows forming an opinion about ​this doctrine without delving into the gory details of Marx’s Capital and other primary sources of the founders of Marxism. I had to do this in the early 70s of the last century. I was a student at a technical university. A very large part of the study time, that we needed so much, was assigned to the study of