Karl Marx stated that he was in favor of “free trade” because it would lead to a revolution of the proletariat vs. the bourgeois. And protectionists who quote him, agree with him.
Marx was in favor of free trade because it would cause bad things, in his warped mind, a mind that was never correct about anything economic. I, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell, and many others are in favor of it because we know it will cause more good things for more people than the alternative. So I dont give a fk why Marx or other idiot leftist are in favor of it. They are wrong, and their motivations are evil. Irrelevant.