I took a sociology class in my Junior year of high school, just for kicks and giggles. I thought it'd be fun--and in all honesty, it really was. Unfortunately, I'm doomed to run around for the rest of my life defending the so called "Father of Socialism" thanks to that class.
It's not that I believe that communism is the way. I like my democracy quite a lot, to tell the truth. I don't think that the system we know today works, at all. But nevertheless, my feathers still get ruffled whenever people, like say, Presidential Hopeful John McCain, make remarks about Fidel Castro getting the illustrious chance to meet Marx soon. And I'm pretty sure that most of you who believe in Heaven are feeling pretty comfortable in the fact that you won't be getting the chance to meet Castro when you finally kick the bucket.
And that's all very well and good, except that assuming Marx and Castro do end up in the same general area, Marx will be delivering Castro a swift punch to the gut.
Little known fact: Close to Karl Marx's death, he stated very plainly, that he was not a Marxist. Karl Marx is rolling in his grave at the idea of Communism. His form of belief dictated that society is lead by conflict, and eventually we, as a society, will reach a point in our lives where there is no conflict and then this idea of everybody being equal, this idea of "Communism" will naturally instill it's self into our society. There will be no war fought, no revolutionary group overthrowing the government in favor of this new form--this idea of communism will be a natural result.
He also went on to state, at the time he came up with this idea, that it was a very very very long time in coming.
And of course psychologists of the world rolled their eyes and muttered about how sociologists know nothing of the human nature, we will always want what our neighbor has.
So, yeah, Fidel Castro is on his way to the great white pearly gates (and will probably be tossed out before he can get in), and he was a follower of a belief system based loosely on Marx's own belief system.
Loosely, though.
Honestly, though, such ignorance. I feel horrible for Karl Marx, you have to take a specialized class in order to learn that Communism isn't his fault. I wonder how many times his spirit's been sucker punched?
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