marxism

nonsense

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Royal Society of Literature

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history of the Soviet Union

is not intended to be relevant to explaining the traditionalist despotism of Asiatic social systems where he discovered no class conflict.

Marxism does not have, and does not even pretend to have, any mechanism to explain the internal development of the social system it describes as “Asiatic.” In these areas of traditionalist despotism, under which the larger part of the world’s population lived for thousands of years, Marx quite explicitly and admittedly found no class conflict, in the absence of opposing groups categorized as economic classes. (Change only came, as he puts in, when Western culture bursts in on them: an unconscious illustration of Marx’s Eurocentrism).

is only made to sound plausible via complex misdirection.

Nonsense needs complex misdirection to make it sound plausible.

Robert Conquest

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