JahFocus CS
Get It How You Get It
Look at how it was put into practice. It didn't work out like that. Simply another elite, the party elite, came to take over the place occupied prior to the communist revolution by the royalty or capitalist elite. That's why it should no longer be taken seriously - because it has been attempted, ostensibly at least, and failed not only to succeed but even to meet its own criteria. Moreover the philosophical foundation for communism itself has been destroyed. If you're familiar with Marx, you will know he talked a lot about dialectical materialism, his own take on the Hegelian dialectic. For a dialectician like Marx, communism is the anti-thesis created in response to the particularly brutal form of capitalism that was in vogue during the early 19th century. I mean you had children working 96 hour weeks as chimney sweeps in the cities- that shyt does not happen anymore. Capitalism has changed, the thesis has changed; so communism as the anti-thesis must change with it. But it hasn't really.
But mainly the issue I have with communism (like libertarianism) is that it has a far too idealistic vision of what humans are actually like. In the USSR for example everybody was guaranteed a job no matter how bad they were at it.
Just imagine, you're working your ass off mining coal or working in a factory. You put your heart and soul into your work. There's nothing more important to you than mining coal. Then you look over to see your colleague, who shows up drunk and sleeps through every shift, and no disciplinary action is going to be taken against him for his behaviour. He's going to take home the same pay as you do, too. Pretty soon you're going to lose your own motivation and drive, because why put your heart and soul into a backbreaking job like coal mining when you get exactly the same out of work for goofing off? And this problem seeps into all other fields of employment, too. The incentive argument is really important I think, and there is no sufficient communist solution to providing people incentive to push themselves and push the boundaries of human knowledge.
So to conclude, I think Marxism is fantastic for understanding what is wrong with capitalism, but not worth studying for solutions to capitalism.
I'll get at this post when I get a chance later, but this is off base IMO... Marx's critique was not solely premised on abstract moral pontifications about what was "too much" or "too brutal," he was focused on the class dynamics driving society, which have not changed. Whether child labor is still in vogue is irrelevant to the nature of capitalism, the source of profits, etc.
with the Sharia
Authoritarianism is a no go breh
This is really a incredible distortion of these guys. 
