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2010/4/18 David Thorstad <bin...@gvtel.com>: > > > "The Tea Party movement's dirty little secret is that its chief > financial backers owe their family fortune to the granddaddy of all > their hatred: Stalin's godless empire of the USSR. The secretive oil > billionaires of the Koch family, the main supporters of the right-wing > groups that orchestrated the Tea Party movement, would not have the > means to bankroll their favorite causes had it not been for the pile of > money the family made working for the Bolsheviks in the late 1920s and > early 1930s, building refineries, training Communist engineers and > laying down the foundation of Soviet oil infrastructure. > > The comrades were good to the Kochs. Today Koch Industries has grown > into the second-largest private company in America. With an annual > revenue of $100 billion, the company was just $6.3 billion shy of first > place in 2008. Ownership is kept strictly in the family, with the > company being split roughly between brothers Charles and David Koch, who > are worth about $20 billion apiece and are infamous as the largest > sponsors of right-wing causes. Maybe due to the fact that the family has direct knowledge that socialism CAN work? -- Néstor Gorojovsky El texto principal de este correo puede no ser de mi autoría ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
