MARXISM, THIS TALE OF TWO CITIES

摘要

Marxism, understood as the ideas of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, offers us a tale of two cities: one, which claims to have freedom but doesn't, and the other, which possesses bountiful freedom for all but few know where it is or how to get there. The first city is called "capitalism." In this city, whose institutions are widely viewed as the very embodiment of freedom, nothing is free. Everything costs, and most things cost more than those who need them can afford. For most of its citizens, what is called "freedom" is having the right to compete for things that remain just outside their grasp. But no one keeps them from competing or from thinking that one day they (or their children) may succeed.