[RedMonqey]

He invoked every cultural icon of the left from Dylan to Malcolm X saying a lot of 1000 dollar words and phrases.

He no doubt, was mimicing his great mentor, Karl Marx(see my post 51)

He too was a phony who knew nothing about real economics but dazzled ignorant audiences with, as you put it, 1000 dollar words and phrases

P. T.Barnum would be proud of both of them.....

[lentulusgracchus]

He no doubt, was mimicing his great mentor, Karl Marx(see my post 51) He too was a phony who knew nothing about real economics but dazzled ignorant audiences with, as you put it, 1000 dollar words and phrases

If I were to read Das Kapital, I wouldn't read Marx himself but (to apply some Kirk-like gaming of my own -- see my last) would instead get a Cliff Notes version by someone who knew what he was talking about.

Someone like Milton Friedman.

Cheating? Not if you own the book and understand the questions.