>>10515You know what's funny about this is that you hear this line a lot:
>communism sounds nice in theory but doesn't work in practiceThis is actually a very clever line of propaganda because it immediately goes after the root idea of marxism, when the reality is the exact opposite.
Marxism is only validated through practice. It's the only political position that rejects ideology whereas capitalism requires ideology to justify itself.
By saying stuff like this they twist the meanings to assert that capitalism is the thing grounded in reality and communism (and therefore marxism) is this ideological pie in the sky thing. We as leftists (that's you) need to get gud at shutting down arguments like this.
>Practice is very crucial if we are going to learn anything at all. First of all, practice is the source of all knowledge, past, present and future. Secondly, practice is the motive force in the development of knowledge. Thirdly, practice is the criterion to measure the correctness of any knowledge. And last, practice is also the objective of knowledge. We will elaborate on these points.– Cynthia Lai
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-5/cwp-practice.htm