I thought you were out on a limb with your comment about "Marxists," wideawake, but the above comment placed you back in range.
All of Marx's thought is based on two underlying principles: that Ricardo's labor theory of value is valid, and that government intervention is necessary to insure that value is maintained.
That's the excellent lesson to be drawn from Marxism: that seemingly innocent stupid mistakes lead to many, many people being killed.
And, of course, all the free trade opponents on this thread are arguing for a labor theory of value and for government intervention in prices to maintain it.
-I thought you were out on a limb with your comment about "Marxists," wideawake, but the above comment placed you back in range.
While Free Trade can be a good thing. Even Hayek recognized that it was unhealthy and self-destructive for a society to have capitalism without restraints, usually imposed by prevailing social norms. Without them and basing the rightness of an action primarily on it's value in the market, we'll soon be like China: harvesting human organs and dumping whatever crap we can get away with onto unsuspecting consumers.