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Oh, we have “Marxists”.
Meng Xiaosu (孟晓苏), the father of property market in China, was famous for saying that “the end goal for Marx‘s ideal is not the maximization of public ownership, but the maximization of personal ownership” and used the argument to support the creation of housing market that ultimately causes reckless speculation and further wealth inequality.
There are many “Marxists” throughout history who would dig into famous works to find quotations to “legitimize” their policies.
For example, back in 1980, when trying to circumvent the national law that forbids land sale to private owners, Luo Jinxing (骆锦星) who was the Deputy Chief o the Shenzhen Property Management Bureau at the time, dug into Chapter 4 of Lenin’s State and Revolution, in which Lenin quoted Engels’s The Housing Question (1872) to justify that land sale is actually permitted during a “transitional period”:
When Luo reported this to the Municipal Council Secretary Zhang Xunfu (张勋甫), the latter added a quote from the Communist Manifesto to support their claims:
With the nodding approval of Marx, Engels and Lenin, it is now justifiable for the government to sell land to private owners lol.
We have this kind of “Marxists”. In fact, many such cases.
the kind Vladimir Ilyich would have shot everbody