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1 posted on 04/30/2018 8:04:15 PM PDT by doug from upland
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To: doug from upland

Well, the NYT is officially out of the closet now.


2 posted on 04/30/2018 8:09:23 PM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: doug from upland

Another reason for NOT celebrating Cinquo de Mayo.


3 posted on 04/30/2018 8:10:07 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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"...educated liberal opinion is today more or less unanimous in its agreement that Marx’s basic thesis — that capitalism is driven by a deeply divisive class struggle in which the ruling-class minority appropriates the surplus labor of the working-class majority as profit — is correct."

No, it's not correct. It's not driven by society. It comes from an individual's instinctive need and basic right to own his own property, and to be able to buy and sell it as he pleases.

The "educated liberal" isn't so much educated as brainwashed into believing whatever theories the power-hungry throw at them.
5 posted on 04/30/2018 8:13:30 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: doug from upland

Without Marx there would never have been Hitler.


6 posted on 04/30/2018 8:14:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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A “bourgeois socialist” is that like a fully-clothed stripper?


7 posted on 04/30/2018 8:15:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Marx was undisciplined. The rest of him was a result of it.


8 posted on 04/30/2018 8:17:45 PM PDT by lurk
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It’s been tried and tried and tried and marxism fails every time. How many people have to die? Over one hundred million already. Is that not enough? Yet idiots still believe it is the path to utopia. It is not. It is the path to hell.


9 posted on 04/30/2018 8:17:57 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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Karl Marx spent a lot of time in British libraries reading Adam Smith. Why? Because he wanted to know all about capitalism so that he could figure out how to smash it to pieces.


10 posted on 04/30/2018 8:27:20 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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“Marx’s conviction that capitalism has an inbuilt tendency to destroy itself remains as prescient as ever.”

To add to this delicious itony, the article was wirtten by a South Korean!
(Well, he was probably desperate for a check so it had to be an article the NYTimes would like...)


12 posted on 04/30/2018 8:29:57 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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Isn’t it interesting that the marketing people have made pseudo-holidays out of the birthdays of Karl Marx (Cinco de Mayo) and Lenin (Earth Day)?

The only thing I’ll be celebrating on Saturday is Derby Day.


14 posted on 04/30/2018 8:34:34 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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Ah, the tired old myth of stateless communism, or how all these Marxtards manage to delude themselves that the various gulag states weren’t exactly what their revolution was to produce.

The revolution never stops because it represents a rebellion against human nature, not just human culture. Said nature being entirely unsuited to stateless fantasies. But recall that Marx was enthusiastic about Darwin and realize that if there is natural selection then so too could there be unnatural selection to breed Man-like communist brings who though they shared physical appearance with humanity that could not live en masse as stateless communist they would not share the the same spirit, or have the same humanity.

Untold generations of soviet States, of gulags and every oppression imaginable to replace men — or as C.S.Lewis might have said: to Abolish Man — were just what Marx would approve of.

Along the way things like Lysenkoism weren’t weird missteps but more of the same, deriving madness from madness this ideology sought to make socialist nature to go with socialist man ... a fake nature for a fake humanity.

Marx was hip to the horrors he would spawn. He might have thought they would be achieved easier, but he knew that untold tyrannies had to happen before his materialistic fairy story could even have a chance at happening.


15 posted on 04/30/2018 8:35:13 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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The king of the rats was from Trier in Clemens Brentano's Märchen.
16 posted on 04/30/2018 8:35:56 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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On that basis, we are destined to keep citing him and testing his ideas until the kind of society that he struggled to bring about, and that increasing numbers of us now desire, is finally realized.

What a crock of crap. Marx died before the book was done and never did get around to detailing how communism would work and Engles wasn't smart enough to finish the book with the answers. History is strewn with the wreckage of societies that have tried communism, from New Harmony to modern-day Venezuela, and it simply won't work because a free man only expends effort when he feels that effort is justly rewarded.

17 posted on 04/30/2018 8:37:27 PM PDT by econjack
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The Porta Nigra in Trier.

Conservatives will recognize the Porta Nigra in the logo of Regnery Books. The Regnery family is from Trier.

18 posted on 04/30/2018 8:38:01 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Socialism, and the penultimate goal of socialism, communism, is remarkably successful, and some of the most successful societies on earth have prospered from it for eons.

The societies of ants, termites, and bees are examples perfect communist societies. Each member of the society knows it's place in the society, and contributes exclusively to the success of that society, programmed by instinct to dedicate it's life to the success of the society.

"Unfortunately," humans and their feelings towards their offspring just don't allow for a perfect communist society.

Mark

19 posted on 04/30/2018 8:38:51 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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I’m not reading this Shiite, boy. But yeah, Marx was onto something. Great tool. Almost everything in the commie goals has been achieved. Been proven not to work as a way to govern, but that doesn’t stop power hungry relics to use it for their own gain, again and again.


25 posted on 04/30/2018 10:30:55 PM PDT by Yaelle
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Marx was a social, financial and political parasite, not a member of “the working class”. At least Ho Chi Minh was once a dishwasher in France.( He later got a job as a communist mass murderer and destroyer of societies - sounds like some of our Castro/Chavez loving Democrats, in training).

Tomorrow the NY Times will find some halfassed Philosophy professor to expound on how great Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Ho, and the Kim Family, along with the Nazis (Adolf, Himmler, Heydrick, Mengele etc), were great portenders of Planned Parenthood.


26 posted on 04/30/2018 10:37:04 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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Oh hell this is an opinion piece opinions are like arse ho’s everybody got one !

This bunk considering socialism has killed and is still killing millions


29 posted on 04/30/2018 11:36:15 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (I think therefore im Dangerous to the liberal agenda !)
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“Marx’s boundless intellectual enthusiasm.”


33 posted on 05/01/2018 1:59:42 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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Daddy-o Karl Marx “was right” it’s just that “real Communism has never been tried”.

Let’s see another 100,000,000 humans slaughtered and another billion enslaved giving it a go, right?

Sheesh.


37 posted on 05/01/2018 3:13:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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