2008-09-06, 02:45 | Link #1201 | |
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2008-09-06, 05:08 | Link #1202 | |
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I think my point is still apt as well --- which is it's not like the two or three paragraphs it takes to properly describe Communism and Marxism has been suppressed: people simply don't pay attention.
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2008-09-06, 09:43 | Link #1204 |
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Well, if so many people have been taught Marxism so straightforwardly and objectively in the US, I really must worry about the amount of ADD people out there. Perhaps they really should be getting more Ritalin.
Sorry, but I definitely can't believe it's taught so straightforwardly. Not after all the sorts of things I hear time and time again about communism, even among supposedly learned people (the Slashdot crowd, etc). Perhaps the actual (nonexistent) relationship between Marx and the Soviet Union is not taught correctly?
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2008-09-06, 10:00 | Link #1205 |
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Basically, people have no flaming idea that Marx only had ideas. Those who put it into action (Lenin, Mao, Ho....) borrowed his name, but I'm damn sure that what they did was not what the Bearded One had in mind.
Anyway, most "capitalist" societies practise some degree of socialism now.
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2008-09-06, 11:58 | Link #1206 | |
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2008-09-06, 15:31 | Link #1207 |
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Interesting.. .it *used* to be standard fair in any government/civics/polysci course to get a reading list of more than a dozen books including such items as The Federalist Papers, some of Jefferson's writings, the writings of Karl Marx, Rousseau, Macchiavelli, and most of the other great government system philosophers.
What do they teach now? Barney's Purple Politics? I'm not being snide to you --- just that if what you say holds true it just bolsters my opinion of why I see more than I like of uninformed opinions in forums, blogs, and in conversation. However, its not like the information is suppressed. I'm just not very impressed with people who don't check up on what they spout or show enough curiosity to explore what they don't know. (or admit when they do need to look something up).
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2008-09-08, 23:25 | Link #1212 | |
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