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Old 10-04-2011, 02:00 PM
 
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Then that would make the GOP/tea party marxists
Yeah, right probably in the liberal warped universe.
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:01 PM
 
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Wealth Redistribution
Wealth redistribution is fundamental to any system. That is like regenerative energy... you don't actually create energy, you transform it from one form to another.
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:03 PM
 
Location: Staten Island, NY
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Someone who thinks strictly in terms of class warfare. Someone who resents the successes of others. Someone who thinks government can order an aeconomy and a society better than people free to make their own decisions. Someone who thinks the buyer and/or seller of a good or service is the least qualified to set a price for it and that the government is. Someone who gives pre-eminience to equality of outcome to equlaity of opportunity.


A Marxist, seeing a man with two cars and a big house says "No man should have so much."

A Capitalist, seeing the same man says 'Every man should have so much.'
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:05 PM
 
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Wealth redistribution is fundamental to any system. That is like regenerative energy... you don't actually create energy, you transform it from one form to another.
Wasn't the French Revolution about wealth redistribution? Was that a Marxist revolution???
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:05 PM
 
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Wealth redistribution is fundamental to any system. That is like regenerative energy... you don't actually create energy, you transform it from one form to another.
But you do create wealth. Wealth is not a zero sum game. If it was we'd have the same amount of wealth in the world as we did in the days of the ancient Sumarians.
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:05 PM
 
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I am a little confused...
We finally agree on something!
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:05 PM
 
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So Marxism = Wealth Redistribution (Was Robin Hood a Marxist?), Equality (who isn't for equality?) hate speech, and smear jobs? Did you get this from the Communist Manifesto?
Robin Hood, like Santa Claus, is a mythological character. You may look that up.

Equality- neither you nor I are akin to Mick Jagger or Charles Dickens. And all the goverment programs in the world are not going to change that. That is Inequality. Now go back and rethink your question.

Hate Speech and Smear Jobs- those are your inventions and I have no doubt Karl und Friedrich would have approved.

Next time try to spare us the inane questions.
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:09 PM
 
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Robin Hood, like Santa Claus, is a mythological character. You may look that up.

Equality- neither you nor I are akin to Mick Jagger or Charles Dickens. And all the goverment programs in the world are not going to change that. That is Inequality. Now go back and rethink your question.

Hate Speech and Smear Jobs- those are your inventions and I have no doubt Karl und Friedrich would have approved.

Next time try to spare us the inane questions.
"All men are created equal" where is that from? Are the authors Marxist? Wasn't the French Revolution about redistribution of wealth? Where they Marxists? Was Robin Hood's character a Marxist?? I didn't realize I was responsible for creating hate speech and smear jobs. Didn't realize I was that influential. Thanks, I guess
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:09 PM
 
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But you do create wealth. Wealth is not a zero sum game. If it was we'd have the same amount of wealth in the world as we did in the days of the ancient Sumarians.
So you believe in existence of infinite wealth, don't you? Wealth requires resources. Who owns the resources?
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:14 PM
 
Location: Staten Island, NY
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"All men are created equal" where is that from? Are the authors Marxist?

Wasn't the French Revolution about redistribution of wealth? Where they Marxists?

Was Robin Hood's character a Marxist??
'All men are created equal" means that all men are equal before the law. That does not mean that they are equal in ability, drive, skill, character....

Marx would have said that the violence of the French Revolution was inevitable. He would likely have been unable to explain why the revolutionaries replaced one unspeakable terror with another even more unspeakable terror.
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