Now where does communism come in??

[Bernhard]

Did you even actually pay attention to what I wrote. Both prior posts. I can't see how you did and would still write that comment.

I did read them, yes. What I was referring to was this:

I was bringing it up to illustrate the point that Marx himself never believed his system would work.

To claim that Marx at one point or another lost faith in the practical application of his system is one thing, but to state that he never believed in it, full stop, is folly. No one can know that but himself.