Aug 04 2008
“I have no idea what Marxism is, but I still hate liberals for being so damned Marxist!”
Anybody else find the sudden designation of anything liberal as Marxist/sociolist funny? All of these people that so confidently deem anything to do with taxes, or anything to do with social welfare programs or anything to do with one person helping a needy person as socialist knows absolutely nothing about the topic and is just following the crowd.
Marx believed that class struggles drive people’s consciousness, and the struggles therefore also drive all of society. He saw socialism as being the first step away from the capitalist system, where people would be paid according to the quality and quantity of work that they did. This distribution of wealth would be controlled by the public. There is much more to him than this, though these are a few of the basic principles.
Wanting graduated taxes and affordable health care does not fit into Marx’s model. Not at all, not even if you try to force it in.
Yet somehow, Obama is a Marxist, and liberals all want socialism. Oh, and all of Europe is already socialist……….as is Canada.
It just does not make any sense to me. The election is three months from today, yet so many people are still believing everything that they are told while they simutaneously criticize others for doing the same. The most hypocritical aspect of it all is that socialism is said to restrict originality and free thought, though by allowing buzz words like “Marxist” to permeate and be used as a poor excuse for unjustified and ignorant attacks, people are beautifully displaying their lack of free will and thought.
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I don’t think it is funny at all. It breaks my heart for my country. It breaks my heart for my children and their children. It breaks my heart that many people that live in this country seem incapable of picking up a book, or taking a course to actually learn what it is they are talking about. This country put a man on the moon when I was 14 years old. That sense of wonder, and “through knowledge we can do” is gone. It makes no sense to me either, since by choosing to be ignorant, we write our own destiny.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who was trying to figure out how liberals and non-Bush supporters were suddenly labeled as Marxists and anti-American! :D.