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Jan 4, 2023Liked by Lorenzo Warby

Another way of describing what you say is that Marxism is unnatural. It's wrong because it's unnatural -- i.e. humans don't behave the way Marxism supposes they do, nor can they be moulded to behave in such a way either.

Our current system in the West, whatever you might want to call it, feels very much like an outgrowth of the kind of systems of exchange that people do naturally with ad hoc policies to prevent the worst of our tendencies.

Marxism, though, blocks this natural tendency to exchange. As such, however Marxism ends up being implemented, it won't be the ideal envisaged in believers' heads. People naturally will kick against the prescribed ideal behaviour.

And, of course, Marxism repeatedly denies the existence of human nature. Its purpose it to mould the ideal humans, never to work with the humans we are.

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