> Judah wrote: > Just as the disasters wreaked in capitalist economies have thoroughly > discredited all the ideas of Adam Smith? > > Yes, Marx was an idealist.
Neither of any of these guys have been "discredited" since neither of them ever governed or were given full power to govern. I'm simply pointing out - and this is 2 decades away from reading Marx - that his ideas seem to be exactly where we find ourselves today. In other words, Marx was way ahead of his time. If I remember correctly, Marx had high praise for capitalism; he felt it was a perfect model to transform economies. His problem with it was that he was afraid that the wealthy would become entrenched, would essentially buy off the government, and would turn into oligarchical oppressors. That's exactly what we *had* prior to this election - and maybe still have. In other words, had Bush stayed in office he would have proven Marx a seer. If Obama doesn't change the trend, same outcome. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:283085 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
