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To: wideawake
Free market theorists reject one of the pillars of Smith/Ricardo economics and the central pillar of Marxist economics - while you embrace it.

I've always wondered about that line of rhetoric: accusing someone of believing that which you yourself believe. What's the purpose? Is it deliberate sophistry, or simple inability to comprehend contradiction?

377 posted on 09/21/2005 9:52:56 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
It's sophistry.

I am sick and tired of being told that because I believe in free markets that I am a partisan of Adam Smith.

Smith did a lot of good economic work, but he was also wrong about a lot of things too.

If one supports economic freedom they have to reject parts of Smith's analysis.

381 posted on 09/21/2005 9:59:40 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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