Originally posted by Leonhard
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but Marx never wrote about centralized state control.
Marx focused on microeconomics - how individual businesses work and are structured, and wanted workers in businesses to have more say on how they were run. He didn't advocate for any sort of massive government control of the economy, or government control of anything much. If anything, he was a libertarian when it came to government. Though Marx has a lot of ideas in his writings, and sometimes contradicts himself, there are two primary themes he sticks to that I would say he values above all else: Increasing democracy, and increasing the rights and power of workers.
Lenin, on the other hand, came up with a version of communism that was pretty much antithetical to both democracy and worker's rights - a one-party totalitarian state in which workers had fewer rights than they'd had under capitalism and in which the state controlled everything. Quite antithetical to Marx's views in key ways.
Also: 35% meaning I am a free market capitalist who believes in reasonable regulations, and I am critical of individualism (which at any rate is an anti-conservative value).
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