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This utopian approach was not realistic. The need
for money is obvious and can not be denied.
Marx’s ardent follower, Lenin, applied this theory in
practice. After the victory of the October Revolution of
1917 in the USSR, Lenin eliminated money and thus
caused chaos. (The ruble collapsed and barter increasingly
replaced money as a medium of exchange)
That period of four years was called Military
Communism. After four years of chaos, money was re-
introduced. This meant failure of the whole theory and
philosophy of Marxism and its fundamental principle,
“Work as much as you please and take as much a you
please.”
The human being is part of the nature. The
competitive instinct motivates him from the day he was
created. In the primitive community the strongest man
was the leader. Nowadays the strongest man is the one
who is the wealthiest. He can be short, thin, feeble, sick,
tall, handsome, overweight, bold, it does not matter. As
long as he has a lot of money, he is the strongest and the
most powerful.
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