Marxists are commonly accused of wishing to crush individuality, wanting to enforce homogeneity and put everyone into the same grey, uniform box. In this video from our “Myths of Marxism” series, Kevin Chang dispells this misconception, arguing that it is in fact the profit system that restricts each and every individual from fulfilling their full potential.

So-called “pragmatists” often say that it is unrealistic to struggle for socialism. Even if we had a successful revolution in Britain, for example, it is clear that an island of socialism could not survive in a sea of capitalism. But is it realistic to expect revolution to spread internationally?

The crimes of Stalin and Mao are frequently held up to demonstrate the apparent failure of socialism and communism; to invalidate the ideas of Marxism. But what failed in the Soviet Union and China, as Maciej of the Swansea Marxists explains in this latest video from the Myths of Marxism series, was not socialism or communism, but a bureaucratically controlled society – a caricature of Marxism.