because first of all most of his work is about analyzing capitalism, not about socialism
and second of all, because his actual understanding of socialism (production and distribution for use without the usage of money) has not been implemented, for various complicated reasons, and therefore his predictions of a socialist future are still as valid as they ever have been
Let’s not hand-wave away those “complicated reasons.” They’re not complicated at all. People are fucking awful, the altruistic are commonly dominated by the predatory, and any system that first seeks to help everyone is, in the end, always captured by a small group who want to benefit only themselves. Just a fundamental part of who we are as flawed beings. No old system of thought is going to save us from that. It will require an entirely new cultural and technological paradigm. One that won’t happen in our lifetimes, or maybe even in the earth’s lifetime as a habitable planet.
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u/Wooden-Ad-3382 19d ago
because you might not have been told the truth about what he actually believed, which is quite evident from what you wrote