[45Auto]

Marx wanted one more thing: a completely disarmed peasentry to work as slaves for his "greater good." The old bastard should be dug up, drawn and quartered, and hung.

[bassmaner]

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[45Auto]

Marx may have been the greatest mass-murderer ever born. His philosophy and those miserable, gullible idiots who favored it have led to the deaths of tens of millions of people in the 20th century. I guess the 21st century will be no different. The entire African Continent and most of Europe (if not the world) is sliding into this Marxian Madness.

[Digger]

...and where does the collectivist ideology get impregnated into the sheeple--THRU THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. Who gave it a $8 BILLION boost above & beyond the incredulous amount it already receives? Why Mr conservative - GW Bush.

[Billthedrill]

The ideas of Marx will continue to thrive in the face of contrary evidence because their appeal is to those who are in need of simple concepts to explain complex phenomena, and convenient enemies to blame for outcomes contrary to theory. These are the hallmarks of intellectual adolescence; it is simply a pity that some intellectuals and would-be intellectuals never grow up.

[Aurelius]

Anyone who doesn't believe that "the ideas of Karl Marx still thrive" should check out this review from last Sunday's NYT Book Review: The Myth of Ownership: Challenging the Rhetoric of Tax Cutting

[Dan Day]

One thing I noticed a long time ago was that higher taxation equals a slide towards communism.

Think about it: Capitalism is when you get to keep the fruits of your labors and get to choose how/where to spend it yourself.

Communism is when the government takes the fruits of your labors, and then *it* decides how/where to spend it (and how much you may or may not ever get back).

That's communism, but it's also exactly the situation you'd have in a "capitalistic" system if tax rates reached 100%. 100% taxation = something indistinguishable from communism.

So what is it when the government confiscates, say, 50% of the fruits of your labor (income) via taxes (directly and/or indirectly)?

It's not capitalism, and it's not communism -- it's a mix of half of each. And as the tax rates rise, the mix becomes more and more communism and less and less capitalism.

[ward_of_the_state]

Groucho and Harpo were much funnier.

[rmlew]

Does anyone want to hold an anti- May Day rally?
Since communists don't believe in property, can't we just crash their event this year?

I can think of a few good signs:
1. Communist: 100 million subjects murdered and counting
2. Just because an idea has never worked, doesn't mean we can't sweap away the corpses and try again.
3. Whats the difference between communists and Nazis? At least 12 times as many people were killed by the Communists.

4. Communism: Genocide isn't bad if its done by your own people. Just ask the Khmer Rouge.

5. Imagine a world without kiddie shills for mass murderers.

6. (With a picture of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Castro, next to an approximation of the those they killed) "You Can't make an omlette without breaking a Few eggs." Alternate text would be " Being a communist means never having to say sorry."

7. "When the revolution comes, will you accept a credit card for my executioner's bullet?"

8. "What is Ingsoc for Gulag or Logai"

9.
Nazis: Arbeit Macht Frei (Work makes one free)
Communists: Re-education through work
Capitalists: Work makes you rich
Which one are you marching for?

10. If communism Works, why do communist countries always need walls to keep subjects in?

11. If Capitalists are such war mongers, why is the only decent thing built by communists an AK-47?

[marshmallow]

The error which underpinned all of Marx's other errors was the notion that religion was the source of man's problems. The "opium of the masses" as he called it.

It had to be dispensed with to make all of the other ideas fly. This hatred of religion was embodied in the former Soviet Union, which executed and persecuted millions in the pursuit of a godless utopia and also in the various other Marxist states.

The Marxist notion that religion is a curse is alive and well on this web site, curiously enough. You see it every day. The atheists, the libertarians etc. Of course, we don't call it that. We call it enlightenment, rationalism, secularism or something similar but it's the same old error tarted up in new clothes.

There really is nothing new under the sun.

[Coleus]

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