[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "Having a lot in common with Karl Marx, by being anti-capitalism, is not something conservatives should strive for - although many here appear to be trying."

I have not read the entire thread. But I see that accusation over and over on free-trade threads.

I am "anti-capitalist," I suppose, because I oppose "free trade" -- but I do support free trade. The former is transfers of technology, wealth, and production to developing countries and the latter is traditional trade with advanced countries, European and Asian.

. The former is strongly advocated by New Democrat Third Way "progressives" (see New Democrat On Line, ndol.org). "Rules-based" free trade they call it. Whose rules? Theirs. Who runs Davos, the U.N., and other one-world government groups? Who wants the WTO to enforce "social justice?" They do.

What do they want? "Social justice!" When do they wanted it? "Now!"

That kind of "free trade" is a Marxist revolution from the top down, IMO.

(With a little of Lenin's NEP mixed in to attract the "useful idiots" with immediate profits and cheap labor.)

[1rudeboy]

It's a fine distinction, and beyond the grasp of some, but I don't think a typical "free-trader" really cares one way or the other if he is called a Marxist. But using Marx's words anticipating a proletarian revolution as a result of free trade while arguing that social/economic unrest results from free trade is downright comic.