[CrucifiedTruth]

Karl Marx said that free trade was destructive, and would lead the world to communism...Karl Marx's Soviet Union self destructed Willie, not that you've noticed.

Marx was right. Marx studied the weaknesses of capitalism and was right on that. The commie bus-turds took control over half of the Earth using his teachings. Killed 70 million people. One cannot do that with a wrong theory. The mad pigs were suckered on what to do next though. The commie utopia was some mix of terror and extremely monopolistic economy - but that's another story. The truth is, lost economic independence can kill a country. There is a reason why the multiculturalists want to remove farmer subsidies. When we cannot feed ourselves a simple disruption of trade will cause riots and create revolutionaries. The financiers who control the trade may cause such disruption, the terrorists may cause it, the prevailing importer may cause it. A huge security risk.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Marx was right."

That's an unbelieveable thing to read in a conservative American site.

In your world then, so was Hitler, Pol Pot, and Mao.

And our Founders were wrong.

You need help.

[CobaltBlue]

I hate to risk the invocation of Godwin's law here, but the primary proponent of autarky (producing everything you need in your own country) in the 20th century was, in fact, the Nazis.

Farmer subsidies drive our businesses offshore. Fannie Farmer just moved their factories to Mexico because they couldn't sell candy competitively using American sugar -- too expensive due to the tariffs.