Reply #63: When has true Marxism ever been tried?

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Marx himself said that socialism could only follow a FULLY DEVELOPED capitalist society -- Russia, China, etc. were all backwards agrarian societies with no built up capital to rely upon. Their greatest crime was trying to skip the step of capitalist development and jump straight to communism, without the requisite intermediate steps in between. Naturally, if you try to divvy up and equitably share a small economic pie, you end up with very little. However, in an advanced capitalist society such as ours, if we were to divide the economic pie more equitably, we could wipe out poverty and everyone would be better off. Do you dispute this?