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To: CobaltBlue
I don't believe that Karl Marx favored free trade, but if he did, what of it?

Read it for yourself. Here's a link

238 posted on 03/22/2004 9:34:36 PM PST by neutrino (Oderint dum metuant: Let them hate us, so long as they fear us.)
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To: neutrino; CobaltBlue
At the end of 1847, Brussels had hosted a "Free Trade Congress," which was designed to further the general Free Trade campaign English manufacturers were waging. In 1846, the English bourgeoisie repealed England's Corn Laws and were ready to take their cause abroad.

In other words. There's a conference going on promoting free trade, and Karl Marx is there bad mouthing it, and using typical scare tactics in the hopes that free trade ideals would not be embraced by the attending nations.

neutrino and the rest of the protectomorons actually believe that Marx would be there cheer-leading free trade to the attending dignitaries, and warning them that by embracing free trade, their system of government would be overturned, and his embraced.

Hey neutered...if Marx had indeed believed that free trade would turn free nations into communist nations, why the hell would he be at that summit warning those very people he wished to overthrow about it?

Good Lord...but you are dense.

242 posted on 03/22/2004 9:41:39 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Unless the world is made safe for Democracy, Democracy won't be safe in the world.)
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To: neutrino
You still haven't answered the question - "so what?"
253 posted on 03/23/2004 7:48:39 AM PST by CobaltBlue
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