Article discreditng the thesis that Mao "killed millions of people" in The Great Leap

[FireIceTalon]

Most of Marx's crucial predictions supporting his economic theory have not come to pass. He was just wrong.

More like, this is your wishful thinking talking.

Marx's analysis of the capitalist system was near spot on, and we are seeing the beginning of the systems end now as we speak. It is failing all over the world, which is why we are experiencing so much political and social upheaval in almost every corner of the globe.

Oh, you want to say "but communism hasn't ever existed yet"? Marx never said communism was inevitable, only that it was possible due to the contradictions within the capitalist system, that it was in the objective class interests of the proletariat based on this analysis (which still holds true) and thus historically necessary (but not inevitable). The goal of communists right now, obviously, is not to establish communism because we are a long ways off from doing this. The goal of communists right now is to educate and organize workers into a political force as a class and eventually into a party of and in itself.

The capitalist system is an utter failure, responsible for more death, human suffering, misery, exploitation, and environmental destruction of the planet than ANY thing else that has been developed in our time, and the defense of it is an UNTENABLE political position. It puts even organized religion to shame by comparison.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/karl...t_20150531

Just about everything in that article has indeed come to pass. This system is NOT sustainable. Communism may not be the inevitable result of all this (though communists must fight for this outcome, since we know what the alternative is), but capitalisms demise is indeed, inevitable one way or the other. You can bank on that (no pun intended).