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[BEST OF] Socialism: Utopian and Scientific -- Friedrich Engels

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Marxism and Historical Materialism

Marxist theory is then tested in the crucible of real world revolutions. The results are studied using a materialist analysis and parts of the theory are, as I said earlier, updated, discarded, or universalized depending on their real world successes or failures. This idealism can only lead to dead ends because they are not rooted in empirical investigation and practice but rather in this subjective mind. You can never unite the geographically international and culturally diverse proletariat with these flimsy, subjective, and arbitrary grounds. Even with all its flaws and excesses and failures, it was and still is Marxist movements that have successfully conducted, defended, and developed proletarian revolutionary movements better than anyone else. So it's by embracing

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