re: broad generalizations
When someone eventually constructs a Marxist state that is a free and prosperous nation that respects the individual rights of its citizens, please get back to me.
Until then, I'm going to assume that Marxism's 100 percent perfect record of wholesale national destruction says something about the philosophy itself. It's a reasonable assumption. I don't know how many lumps a Leftist has to get before he decides that running full-tilt into a concrete wall is not the way to get to the other side.