Ah good old Marx of course komrade.

Let me ask you: as he apparently was so good at predictions, did he predict the millions of deaths of the russian famine in the 1920s and the millions more of death of the soviet famine of the 1930s?

And did he predict the "wonderful" living conditions of people in communist Russia and in the eastern european USSR satellite countries?

People from the comfort of their western countries love to cite Marx but go to Poland for example and ask them how much Marx is loved.

I also find it a bit thick to talk about the coercivity of the capitalistic states. IMO it can only be analysed when put into perspective with the coercivity of states like North Korea, Cuba, Russia, China, etc.

It's nearly as if what Marx didn't predict was more interesting than what he did.

I am not a Marxist and quite opposed to it, but this is weak moralizing. It is amazing how the west has decided to define it's self by the particular economic system they have adopted. It is sad and from the way I look at it Poland is the west (a gateway between the east and the west) It's a country that is more influenced by Western Latin Christianity though out it's history. One could define it many ways I suppose but what makes poland not western (other then connection with the USSR, which if that is how you define it is completely asinine.).

Give him a good argument against what he is saying rather then just weak moralizing.