https://freerepublic.com/tag/willsellyoutherope/ en-us Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:08:19 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4393513/posts What would Karl Marx think of his latter-day disciples in the Democratic Socialists of America? No doubt he would find their politics largely agreeable, but they would present him with a class conundrum. DSA is not a movement of workers but of people with intellectual credentials: some 80 percent of its members have college degrees and 35 percent have advanced degrees. Those credentials are all granted by the institutions that capitalists sustain – it’s not bricklayers who endow Harvard University. State colleges and universities depend on government funding, but government itself, under capitalism, is simply an instrument of business interests.... The Spectator https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4393513/posts#comment Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:08:19 GMT