[Thane_Banquo]

socialism, whatever its practical failures, is motivated by the highest ideals and that its luminaries -- especially Marx -- have much to teach us

I took a History of Economic Thought class last summer. We covered Marx.

I actually enjoyed reading about Marxism as espoused by Marx. It comes through very clearly that Marx was an irrational raving lunatic. But he was also an entertaining irrational raving lunatic.

Marx can teach us a lot. He can teach us what happens to a country when they base their entire political and economic system on a self-contradictory and patently insane system of thought.

[joesnuffy]

Marx was great...he let his family starve & freeze..nearly to death....while he pursued the more lofty goals of raising the level of 'conciousness' of the workers...
Religion, may have been to Marx, the opiate of the people...but it was religion (Christianity at least) that kept them working and feeding their familes