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To: Borges
I wonder how it is that these people who are clearly capitalists in their endeavors choose to champion anti-capitalism?
11 posted on 01/29/2014 7:09:09 AM PST by oldbrowser (Obamacare is Obama's Great Leap Forward)
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To: oldbrowser
In the early 70s an episode of "Room 222" featured a strident Marxist high school student whose hero was a banjo-playing folk singer named Oscar Smith. He preached the virtues of Smith high and low, and strove to bring him to the campus of Walt Whitman High to perform. When he finally heard back from him, he asked for an inordinate amount of money to show up. In other words, he turned out to be a "capitalist sell-out." The student was thus disillusioned with Marx and the episode ended with the Lloyd Haynes character recommending that read Gandhi instead.

Isn't it hard to believe a liberal show like "Room 222" spoofing Pete Seeger? No one would do it now (and not because of his death or his age).

25 posted on 01/29/2014 7:25:08 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: oldbrowser

They assail capitalism to try to get the anti-capitalist sheeple to buy their products.


29 posted on 01/29/2014 7:27:07 AM PST by Theodore R.
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