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We know you'd never make such a claim without having a sound factual basis for it. So please post your sources for that it.
We know you'd never make such a claim without having a sound factual basis for it. So please post your sources for that it.
Well, first off, it is generally incumbent on the person *making* the claim (here, that Communism mandates identical education, etc.) to support it.
However, trivially, Marx wrote 'From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs'. Plus the fact that victims/citizens of the Soviet Union received widely different educations - I know a couple of ex-Soviet Ph.D.s as well as some who lacked a college degree at all, so clearly people got different educations.
Nowhere did Marx write that everyone would receive, for example, identical pay for different work. I have to admit that this is something I am taking on someone else's word, but since it was Danny Goldstick (link) who told me this, I sort of tend to give him credit for knowing more about Marx than most people.
So, I'm open to being proven wrong, just provide some cites to writings of say, Marx or Engels where they say the Communist state will force everyone to have the same pay, education, etc, etc.
Communism was a failed experiment, and caused untold misery to millions, but there's no need to make stuff up about it like the original author did. It just makes her look ignorant, and more than slightly off-her-meds.
Others have noted other blatant errors in fact, I don't think I need to repeat them again surely. Anyone who thinks this writer is a genius or something really needs to improve the quality of their reading material and maybe get out more.
--R.