Elias Eliadis
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

The problem is that Marx believed that the revolution would take place in the bourgeosie (middle class) of England because it was to them that he appealed and not to the peasants of Russia who did not have the education to understand what socialism was all about.

Thus, all the misfortune of the revolution. Who knows what could have been if people of the middle class of a European country accepted the virtues of Socialism.

It is almost the same with the history of the first Church of Christianity. They were the first communists in fact. But that dream died away after the third to fourth century when Christianity became the main religion of the Byzantine empire and more and more uneducated to its ideas people “accepted” one more God in order to become true citizens of the new empire.

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