First of all, I don’t know whether Marx was a free trader or not. It doesn’t matter, since it was hardly a main tenet of his and since even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Maybe this was one of those times.
Marx was not in favor of any economic liberty, and the free trade position is the liberty position. That’s why Reagan looked to Friedman, NOT BUCHANAN, on issues of economics. And if you need to be shown that liberty works, then you are on the wrong damned side of the leger. The only economies that have ever worked in world history are the freer economies, all things considered. Liberty works, and if you doubt it, begone to HuffPo and DU.
Karl Marx stated that he was in favor of “free trade” because it would lead to a revolution of the proletariat vs. the bourgeois. And protectionists who quote him, agree with him.
Leading to a very humorous paradox: people who agree with Marx calling you a Marxist.
At least this time you are defending Friedman.