Spanish views from a small town

It's been a hundred years and the state still hasn't withered away. Instead, it's become a stumbling behemoth crashing into all aspects of our lives. Some of its functions have even been passed to large, private institutions which also effectively control our lives. Yet, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the ideas of Marx and Engels, through the filters of Lenin and Stalin, still touch us, and helped to shape the tumultuous twentieth century. The original premise was laudable. Both Marx and Engels believed that the search for unlimited profits by industrialists brought about the economic slavery of the poorest. Their intention was that the working poor should have a share of the profits by eliminating the private ownership of the companies. In our days, this means that companies give employees certain shares in the company they work in. If the company does well, their shares are worth more, and they eventually earn more money. Some small companies have even become total...