Making Peace With Marx

A red flag with a gold hammer crossed with a gold sickle, broad-lined cartoon propaganda with Lenin towering over the masses screaming "Death to capitalism", and the image of menacing oppression left by the legacy of Stalin and the Soviet Union. While others are evoked with images of Chairman Mao, the Kim dynasty, and the violent Viet-congs all ruling with an iron fist. All of these fears unified behind the word "Marxism" and its entrails (Socialism and Communism). There is a problem in the inquiry of Marxism. Simply thinking of it is demonised, let alone sympathising or empathising with it. It happens in all parts of society everywhere, albeit (although) in different intensities and forms.