Marx pushed Marxism which was an off-brand of communism which has failed and caused unprecedented poverty and class disparity in every place it was tried. Marx also ended the lives of those vehemently against him and his ideologies in the same tune that President Xi does today over in China.
Capitalism may not be perfect (nothing is, but much is far worse), but it has certainly allowed me to move from poverty to quite a comfortable life through my own determination, hard work and earned merits. I was a young buck with two kids making minimum wage once. Capitalism allowed me to decide that wasn't good enough for myself or my girls. It all started with a low-paying (but higher than minimum wage) job in a call center within a company that had growth opportunity. I did pizza delivery to supplement that income for almost 10 years and to-date, I now work as an Analyst/MS Office application developer (real programs, not "macros").
Marxism never allowed that -- it was communism with a slight enhanced idea of "workers controlling the business" that they did not create or take the risk to introduce into society. That will never work anywhere (as we see in places like Venezuela where they can't even get their hands onto toilet paper under the softer version of communism).
That's what I have learned -- can you explain how specifically that's inaccurate? No facetiousness - I would really be interested to know if what I have been taught was that wrong.
This post was edited by CyrusTheGreat on Dec 27 2021 04:56pm