What Remains of Communism Now?

Abstract

Some claim Marx was proved wrong by the collapse of the USSR but there is reason to think Marxism is more powerful than this view assumes. For example, the USSR never satisfied Marx′s view that socialism must be built on capitalism. Arguably, Marx is being borne out by some Western developments – e.g. the erosion of the principle of private property, socialization of land and even labour, etc. Still, a better way to understand these matters would seem to be the bourgeois position of individualism, whereby individual human beings can make first choices and influence the direction of events, slowly but surely. The result of such an understanding is just the mixed‐up world of human life we witness.

Citation

Machan, T.R. (1994), "What Remains of Communism Now?", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 21 No. 2/3/4, pp. 68-80. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068299410052894