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They want the same thing as the communists, but where Marx and Engels looked at the state as being neither bad nor good but rather as something which could be used, they see the state as always bad.

This leads back to the same thing that was said before on another thread:

They are not for anything, only against everything capitalist. Where are their solutions? They have none. If capitalism and free enterprise are destroyed, what then?

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They want the same thing as the communists, but where Marx and Engels looked at the state as being neither bad nor good but rather as something which could be used, they see the state as always bad.

Regardless, each has the potential, one that is always quickly realized, to concentrate power in a few at the top. There are no checks and balances that are adhered to. If they have them at all it is just window dressing. And we know the results of power concentrated in the few. Human nature takes hold.

That is why it is necessary for a republic to be founded on Judeo-Christian values. Then all power and praise is established at the real top, far above man's ability and material interests. Those values reenforce humility, not arrogance, and giving, not taking. Fortunately, free enterprise is the perfect handmaiden for such a system. The market is a perfect mechanism for turning natural human self-interest into good for all, and it is self-correcting.

The subtle nuances of a constitutional republic paired with free enterprise is such a beautiful and natural, self-perpetuating and self-correcting system, that I can't for the life of me see why "intellectuals" aren't enthralled with it rather than with that pseudo philosophy called socialism.

I just realized I am responding to a year-old post. Blame it on the good work of MAF in linking to this. :-)