unbeliebable.
Says the billionaire.
Marx is man of the moment. That moment was 1917. The nation was Russia in the early throws of a brave new world.
Soros, you sorry ass.
i just don't get it.
i come across people like this all the time in academia. in their case, usually they know nothing about economics.
but in soros' case, he's financially successfully by means of capitalism.
the only thing that makes sense about these people is that they want to be in control, they want to control others, and many others want to be controlled by them. stupid.
My God. WHEN is this country going to wake up to the danger of people like this? The man is an avowed socialist and admirer of Marx.
I guess in a country where people wear a t-shirt with a slimeball like Che Guevera on it, we should not be surprised to hear of people so aligned with the Democratic party as Soros.
"Even those who gained most from the system began to question its viability. The billionaire speculator George Soros now warns that the herd instinct of capital-owners such as himself must be controlled before they trample everyone else underfoot. 'Marx and Engels gave a very good analysis of the capitalist system 150 years ago, better in some ways, I must say, than the equilibrium theory of classical economics,' he writes. 'The main reason why their dire predictions did not come true was because of countervailing political interventions in democratic countries. Unfortunately we are once again in danger of drawing the wrong conclusions from the lessons of history. This time the danger comes not from communism but from market fundamentalism.' "
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Just a few days ago I saw a post of someone who said that Democrats are communists in disguise or something like that. Another posted posted a long post explaining that Democrats are not communists at all and calling them that is simplistic and wrong. Too bad I don't remember the names of the posters, so I could ping them both, and ask the second poster how does he explain Soros' comments.
Idiots.
Most of the game statements about capitalism creating the seeds of its decline where more accurately identified with Schumpeter, who by the way was one of the best of many Marx debunkers.
Apparently Marx was 'so accurate' in describing capitalism, he failed to refute the false 'iron law of wages' and concocted his mistaken labor theory of value, ignoring the role of capital entirely as a form of value. The whole edifice of communist hate of capitalism is based on that lie.
This fawning write-up is from an idiot journalist who knows no better. The illogic is so superficial: Marx was a critic of capitalism; there are valid criticisms of capitalism; therefore Marx was right.
I won't even bother to search for that BBC poll, as I'm sure the leftists at BBC front loaded it to ensure a pro-Marxist outcome.
Socialist Overlord Rigging Our System
And this guy claims to be a disciple of Karl Popper.
Ha ha. Dream on, lefties, dream on.
After the Revolution, we'll all stay at our jobs making refrigerators until the State throws us on the scrap heap.
I can't wait.
"In his other great masterpiece, Das Kapital, he showed how all that is truly human becomes congealed into inanimate objects - commodities - which then acquire tremendous power and vigour, tyrannising the people who produce them."
Like Bach's music? Or, for that matter, books?
Come to think of it, Das Kapital did congeal into an object which tyrannizes people.
Soros will never understand capitalism, much less defeat it. He's a commodities and currencies trader, not a business leader nor an entrepreneur. He creates no value, he only trades it. As a result, he'll never defeat Capitalists because he is not one himslelf and has no understanding of them. Creators such as business-leaders and entrepreneurs will always be superior to non-creators like Soros.
Now that he's made his billions, he wants to make it illegal for anyone else to.
The billionaire speculator George Soros now warns that the herd instinct of capital-owners such as himself must be controlled before they trample everyone else underfoot.
We can be quite sure that, should a movement to 'control' capital-owners such as Soros ever gain momentum, Soros would be the first capital-owner in line to insure that his own riches and capital-generating concerns were exempt from any controls that might be imposed.
Being a hypocrite is bad enough, but being a billionaire hypocrite is especially gauche.
Nah. But his followers, most of whom have not actually read his tedious works, nor read any actual philosophy at all, but who think Hillary has read some philosophy and therefore has a clue, will continue to be unaware that marxism is no longer in use even though it occupies more shelves in the public library than the rest of political science together.
Anyone today that takes Marxism seriously might as well take astrology or alchemy seriously.