There can be nothing redeeiming about a philosophy that does not treat individuals as ends in themselves.
Such a philosophy will always lead to people and their lives/property being sacrified for "the common good," which means: for everybody and nobody.
Sure, there are different permutations of Marxism. Stalin and Mao may not have done it the way Marx would advocate, but it's still a permutation of Marxism. We see a different permutation of it in Britain and gaining ground in the US. We also saw it on Pol Pot's killing fields. I am not talking about Marxism as a specific political position; I am talking about Marxism as an underlying philosophy.
There can be nothing redeeiming about a philosophy that does not treat individuals as ends in themselves.
Such a philosophy will always lead to people and their lives/property being sacrified for "the common good," which means: for everybody and nobody.
Sure, there are different permutations of Marxism. Stalin and Mao may not have done it the way Marx would advocate, but it's still a permutation of Marxism. We see a different permutation of it in Britain and gaining ground in the US. We also saw it on Pol Pot's killing fields. I am not talking about Marxism as a specific political position; I am talking about Marxism as an underlying philosophy.