Article discreditng the thesis that Mao "killed millions of people" in The Great Leap

[Jester]

Marx himself proposed the outcomes of communism or another, less desirable alternative; this was something that Luxemburg would later go into more detail on when she raised the question of 'socialism or barbarism'. While Marx didn't hold communism to be inevitable, I gather that he was very optimistic about its eventual victory and that he believed it to be the more likely outcome than what Luxemburg would later refer to as 'barbarism'.

I have only ever heard the other story, that the inevitability produced by the natural processes of class antagonism led inexorably towards the conclusion - the collapse of the capitalist system, the revolution by the proletariat (and dictatorship thereof), and the arrival at history's final stage, Communism. I would be curious to know where Marx describes any alternatives, however apocalyptic.

-Jester