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It is economics.
A communism is the final stage of an economy...communism creates a classless nation. A nation where people only take what they need.
A nation that calls itself communist is planning to achieve a communist nation...a nation without classes.
Marx said that the human economy has to go through stages, there's the slave state, the feudal state, the capitalist society and there's communism.
Each stage of the human economy is destroy by it's own contradictions. Marx believed that only advanced capitalist societies can achieve communism because they have enough wealth and technology to do so.
In communist nations like Vietnam and China...capitalist activity is allowed to build the factors of production. Capitalism is good at building the wealth of a nation, but then it causes extreme inequality.
China is planning on achieving communism like 100 years from now. Vietnam is one of the fastest growing economies in the world right now.
Communist countries are about what they could be, not what it is.
You are talking about Marx, a noted racist, (
Karl Marx: Communist leader and blatant racist) with the same admiration a devout religious person talks about their religious leader. Marx and Engels said blacks were savages but a step removed from animals.
We'll ignore that for now and look at communism in action. Vietnam, North Korea, China, USSR all had ruling elites who lived better than the masses, controlled the mechinations of the state, and formed an elite. They in no way were any different than the US in political structure, Stalin, Mao, Kim Il Sung, Ho Chi Minh, all revered and put over the masses as elite and the various politburos over the masses.
So you can appeal to some faith, but 'm talking reality.
You see the same in Rome which wasn't capitalist, you see the same in writing about Mayans and Inca, you saw it in the bible with the jewish tribes, you saw it ancient Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Persia, Macedonia and etc.
An elite class always rises over the masses