Anyone reading "Why Marx Was Right" by Terry Eagleton?

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2. Exactly, the solutions need to be messy,

with plenty of checks and balances to keep the thieves from amassing Robber Baron fortunes. Mixed economies are the only ones that have a chance of working and being both humane and competitive.

Lenin was the one who really muddied the waters, insisting that the democratic dictatorship of the workers become instead the dictatorship of the party, leading the way to instituting a new de facto inheritable aristocracy of party insiders.

The problem with any pure system is that it relies upon the purity of the human race in order to work, and that's just not going to happen.