Left and Right: Part III

Although there are very few extremists on the left who openly advocate direct and immediate anarchy, the Marxist theory does in fact claim that the utopia to be brought about by the "dictatorship of the proletariat” should ultimately consist in an anarchist state in which the citizens, having been molded into good behavior (i.e., "politically correct" behavior) by the temporary dictatorship of the proletariat, now act in a fully responsible and kind manner toward each other. There will be complete harmony and no inequality. But, as mentioned above, Marxist societies have never achieved any state remotely resembling such a utopia.

The primary reason for the failure of Marxist societies is their unreal approach to human nature and economics.  The goal of equality is simply unrealistic because people simply are not equal.  Some are taller than others.  Some are more intelligent.  Some are stronger.   Some are more caring towards others.  Some are more selfish than others.   These are facts of life that one has to deal with.  

In terms of economics, capitalistic systems tend to reward those who work hard and invest their capital wisely.  In Marxist societies all incentive to work hard is eliminated and there are no opportunities to invest.  Thus workers are treated as robots who do not personally benefit by working harder unless they climb the ladder through political correctness.  Thus even in Marxist societies there was a way to get ahead materially through the political machine that allowed you to oppress others if you were politically correct enough.  The members of the Politburo, the most clever and ruthless among the Communists, managed to acquire perks not available to the average citizen.  Thus Communism not only failed to achieve the desired classless society but in fact created (at least) two classes -- party insiders and everyone else.  The party insiders had power and wealth to some degree.  There was indeed equality in the other class, the outsider class, but this was the equality of poverty and powerlessness.

Every left wing utopian movement since the French Revolution if left unchecked has tended to produce this kind of two-class society: Government bureaucrats and those who work for them, i.e., the rest of society.

Thus, one can see from this that one should be very wary of left-wing utopianism in all its forms.  You know a tree by its fruits and the fruits of left-wing utopianism are rotten indeed.