[bad company]

from what I hear Marx supported the type of internationalist trade we are now practicing

Really? I'd love to see a link to that.

[DoughtyOne]

Here's a link, but it's hardly proof of what I mentioned I had heard said a number of times. Check it out.

Marxism stands for the abolition of capitalism, but it also recognizes that efforts to prevent capitalism from taking hold can only result in prolonging the life of previous systems of exploitation and was also generally hopeless. Marx said he voted for free trade as opposed to protectionism because in most cases this would be the quickest path to capitalist development and thereby the revolutionary class struggle to overthrow capitalism. But Marx also pointed to examples of where the bourgeoisie cleared away barriers to its development by utilizing protectionism. So Marxism hardly obligates one to declare for any free trade measure nor any protectionist measure.

This was about the fifth paragraph down the page.

http://home.flash.net/~comvoice/23cWTOMarxFreeTrade.html

[DoughtyOne]

Link:

http://home.flash.net/~comvoice/23cWTOMarxFreeTrade.html