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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think you need to do a bit more reading into the history of socialism in the real world if you walked away with the idea that Marxism is "tainted by authoritarians," and not that Marxism has worked in real life, and was demonized by capitalist society for posing an alternative in the real world.

Further, he was also revolutionary, not reformist, though you may have misspoke there.