I'm a freemarketeer and I have no problem with a 40 hour work week, prohibition of child labor, retirement funds and abolishment of slavery. I would prefer a flat tax to a progressive tax.
Maybe you shouldn't guess at what us freemarketeers want? It doesn't sound like you can twist your Communist mindset to fit into our free market thinking.
Freemarketeers differ from Marx that they do not look into the logical consequences of their theory.
We saw what the logical consequences of Marx's theory were. Gulags, misery and poverty. We see the logical consequences of the free market have been much higher standards of living in those countries which have freer markets as compared to those that have less free markets.
Exactly. Just like Communist China as compared to Communist North Korea. Of course, somebody forgot to tell China that they need to forfiet the gulags, the misery and poverty....
Oops....doen't look like a free market (or, in China's case, a "free-er" market) guarentees an end to these things, does it????
Think you best double-think those "communist" labels you enjoy throwing around there Toddster, and take a long, hard look at reality. A pure "free-market" economy can be just as bad--if not worse--than communism in terms of it's effects on a population. Either you're being oppressed by the political class, or being oppressed by the robber-barrons. When you're on the short-end of the stick, it doesn't matter how you label the system.