Posted on 09/14/2010 5:40:57 PM PDT by citizenredstater9271
A good explanation of why marxists and socialists are wrong about "capitalist exploitation."
Text: http://fringeelements.info/post/1109055313/marxist-labor-points
Actually...I’ve known people who believe that anything sold by capitalism is “pure profit” because they reduce everything to its raw materials and labor costs......
People forget what Marxism/materialism really is.
And if Republicans and other free market folks understood and explained this to people, to children, in schools—then the socialist/Marxist disease couldn’t take hold.
“Value” is NOT physical, nor are “ideas”.
Marxist, for example-—believe that a car is “just” a pile of raw material plus what you pay labor to build it.....so they reduce the cost of a car in their mind to maybe $4,000 and thus claim that a $25,000 car is “almost all profit”—
It’s their ignorance which is the reason why they hate the “profit motive”.
They consider a tylenol to be “just” a few cents worth of chemicals which should “only” cost pennies and not dollars....
And the difference between the retail price of things and what these liberal Marxists believe “should” be the real price is what they think is the profit margin—which is how much they believe that labor and consumers are “exploited”.
Obama actually believes this stuff. which is why he is so dangerous....
Business leaders just don’t understand how ignorant these people are.....and it’s like reasoning with children to deal with them....
It’s like liberals are the perennial 4 year old at the check out counter of the supermarket grabbing at the candy and frowning and rebelling when the adults say “No...you have to pay for that....”
These people don’t understand business costs or even the difference between what the dealer or retailer pays versus the manufacturer. etc....
But they think they should be in charge and lead.....because we’re all blinded by Jesus or something......into accepting capitalist exploitation....
some peoples’ children....!
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