Marxism's Fatal Flaw Marx’s social-democratic critics recognized a fundamental point that the great economist missed: that a better world was not inevitable, but achievable, and that their job was to bring that world into being through politics. Sheri Berman Dissent May 4, 2018 Karl Marx installation in his home town of Trier, Germany, 2013 (Cordylus / Flickr) Two hundred ye..