Indeed, just as the Titanic required 1,500 dead to become history’s most famous ship, Marx required epic spasms of bloodshed to become history’s most famous thinker. Without the Russian Revolution (and the revolutions it spawned) Marx would be “a not very important nineteenth-century philosopher,” wrote biographer Alan Ryan. However, Marx was quite clear that he wanted his followers to impose his sweeping ideas on society using force. Human flaws had been a major worry for many of the revolutionary theorists who preceded Marx. But Marx generally refused to consider human nature a factor; his revolutions couldn’t be hijacked by despots because communism was inevitable.

Source: National Post May 03, 2018 11:26 UTC