[headsonpikes]

So I take it that you didn't actually read the article, which is an analysis of the Marxist response to the failure of Marx's essential thesis - that the constant squeeze on the bottom line caused by competitive enterprise would force capitalists to immiserate the working class to such a degree that revolution becomes inevitable.

No immiseration - no revolution. No revolution - no socialism.

Thence the move to condemning America as the immiserator of the world.

So as an itinerant 'liberal', are you for or against that analysis?

[Visiting Liberal]

Honestly? No, I didn't read the article. I saw the term "America-Bashing" and, having seen it more times than I could count, felt I should respond to it. I suppose I should read the article, if only to understand how an analysis of Marx's ideas could lead to accusing liberals of "America-Bashing." Liberals aren't communists, and don't adhere to Marx's philosophy. I certainly don't; communism is a theory that only works in an absolute black-and-white moral world. As soon as human greed, envy, and pigheadedness come into play, it falls apart.