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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:19 AM Original message |
Are you a Marxist? |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:21 AM Response to Original message |
1. Yes |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:22 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Very well so there's that = 1 |
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indep_kidd (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:22 AM Response to Original message |
3. Nieman Marxist |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:33 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Welcome to DU! |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 12:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
35. heh-heh, "Nieman Marxist", I like you already; Welcome to DU, indep_kidd... |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:27 AM Response to Original message |
4. Groucho Marxist |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 06:37 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. DUzy!!! |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 12:40 PM Response to Reply #16 |
36. What!? THAT is a DUzy!? No wait...you're prolly right |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 10:13 AM Response to Reply #16 |
112. ? |
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silverojo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 01:12 AM Response to Reply #4 |
134. I kind of lean toward Harpo Marxism, myself. - n/t |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 01:21 PM Response to Reply #134 |
149. you probably |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:27 AM Response to Original message |
5. You have forced me to out myself. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 12:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
38. Very well. Then you do know you've left me little but a similar option for I am... |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:24 PM Response to Reply #38 |
54. I may have to turn you over my Marxist knee, young lady. |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:33 AM Response to Original message |
7. Well, I'm Not |
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Dollface (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 06:39 AM Response to Reply #7 |
17. Prove it? They'd have to figure out what it means first. |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 07:50 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Probably So |
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Dollface (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 08:00 AM Response to Reply #19 |
24. Sounds like they'd be sorry if they started with you. |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 08:04 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Well, I'm Definitely Not Afraid To Debate |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 12:51 PM Response to Reply #7 |
41. Thanks, Prof., I think that's right. Let them prove it! In fact prove it *to* my face! |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:34 AM Response to Original message |
8. No, I'm a toothless hillbilly. Don't apologize, it's a common mistake. nm |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 12:56 PM Response to Reply #8 |
44. ds? coming to du suggests to me that only hillbilly's are capable of having no teeth... |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 01:50 PM Response to Reply #44 |
117. funny, that.. |
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comtec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:42 AM Response to Original message |
9. NO, because I have common sense, Marx was a dreamer, I'm a realist |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
63. Marx was the ultimate realist. He disliked idealism and said as much. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:40 AM Response to Reply #63 |
97. This is an Capitalist-American loyalty oath thread. Please don't interrupt it with history and fact. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 06:02 AM Response to Original message |
10. I support democratic socialist regulation of and institutions |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:34 PM Response to Reply #10 |
64. I say we put puritan fundamentalism on the boat and send it back to where it came from |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 06:06 AM Response to Original message |
11. Nope, I adore that document we refer to as The Constitution. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 06:20 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Which by the way says nothing much about economic systems. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 06:29 AM Response to Original message |
13. Yes, proudly, I love these guys: |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
47. Harpo used to say he wanted a big house with lots of windows... |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 06:32 AM Response to Original message |
14. No |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 06:36 AM Response to Original message |
15. Probably to an extent |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:12 PM Response to Reply #15 |
121. Me too...sort of. nt |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 06:49 AM Response to Original message |
18. From each according to his abilities |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 08:18 AM Response to Reply #18 |
29. ideally, yes it could. realistically? probably not. human nature and all... |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:37 PM Response to Reply #29 |
57. No I don't. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:12 PM Response to Reply #18 |
48. "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" is the justification... |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 11:56 AM Response to Reply #18 |
145. There's a LOT more to Marx's writings than that. Take a look. |
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fed_up_mother (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
20. No! Thankfully, the vast majority of democrats have more common sense than that. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 08:04 AM Response to Reply #20 |
26. Yeah I'm real glad folks didn't have the "common sense" to reject Marxist concepts like |
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fed_up_mother (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 08:08 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. You think Marx was the only person against child labor? |
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Beer Snob-50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 07:56 AM Response to Original message |
21. do you think most of "them" know what a marxist is? |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 11:27 AM Response to Reply #21 |
155. all i think they know for sure is that it's one of those shaped, antique words... |
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Burma Jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
22. See my Avatar..... |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 12:53 PM Response to Reply #22 |
42. Whew! That was a close one. Glad now your Av wasn't... |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 07:59 AM Response to Original message |
23. If you mean like Chico and Zeppo.... |
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zippy890 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
28. I have my Communist Manipesto |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:17 PM Response to Reply #28 |
50. Stephen's show last night was a laugh riot! |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
30. It's more rewarding than being a bonehead capitalist. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 12:46 PM Response to Reply #30 |
39. I'm just glad there's more alternatives than Marxist & bonehead capitalist |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
31. No, I'm just honest. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:15 PM Response to Reply #31 |
49. I do not believe what republicans believe in; that America is nothing but a rationale... |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
32. Not any more. But, I can hum the Internationale with my Marxist wife. |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:23 PM Response to Reply #32 |
62. The "Internationale" is not a specifically Marxist song. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:10 PM Response to Reply #62 |
79. Well, when I sing, think blender + rusty nail. |
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Bitter_Clinger (88 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
33. The way that I hang on to every cent |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 12:48 PM Response to Reply #33 |
40. hahahaha, ding! You got it, good one ;^) and welcome to DU |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
34. I'm not sure that I am, probably closer to socialist. If only Obama were so liberal. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
37. No. They don't know the meaning of the term when they use it |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:07 PM Response to Reply #37 |
46. Ding! There it is! They don't know jack or dick! |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
43. I live in Northern Virginia so, obivously, yes |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:06 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Hm, now that's the 'real america', right? With real rivers & roads & stuff? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
51. Life-long Marxist-Lennonist here |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:22 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. That reminds me, I'm starting up a jazz xylophone trio called The Trotsky's |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:40 PM Response to Reply #52 |
58. There was an L.A. band called "Trotsky Icepick" |
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gypsylud (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
53. I have Marxist tendencies yes |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
55. nope. I'm a proud Democratic Socialist |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:37 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. That makes sense to me |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
59. I'm an Anarcho-Syndicalist. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:35 PM Response to Reply #59 |
65. ....... |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:43 PM Response to Reply #65 |
69. ... |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #69 |
72. No, no, Wiki; that's the easy part, still... |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:07 PM Response to Reply #72 |
76. Well, there were a few examples of it existing, during the Spanish civil war... |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:34 PM Response to Reply #76 |
83. Understood, you've pointed out some rather contentious locales in which... |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:20 AM Response to Reply #83 |
92. Amish |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:21 AM Response to Reply #83 |
93. Amish |
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hiphopnation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 04:59 AM Response to Reply #65 |
107. here's some more on the anarcho-syndicalists |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 11:13 AM Response to Reply #59 |
154. Dennis? Is that you? |
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FKA MNChimpH8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
60. I think Marx' analysis of the structure and function of capitalism was |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 04:39 AM Response to Reply #60 |
136. yep, a lot of what Marx wrote is actually bedrock mainstream economic science these days |
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plasticsundance (786 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 01:07 PM Response to Reply #60 |
158. Nordic economies lead in competitiveness: |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
61. No, though I think there's a lot of value in Marx. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
66. Are you? |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:40 PM Response to Reply #66 |
68. Answering a question with a question are we? See above: bridgit Oct-30-08 11:37 AM #56 |
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Help_I_Live_In_Idaho (432 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
67. I am a Democratic Socialist |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
70. I don't think anyone has seriously challenged his analysis of capital. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:02 PM Response to Reply #70 |
74. I do think it possible to unite the workers of the world, that's what scares the shit... |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:11 PM Response to Reply #74 |
81. But now the only conceivable way to do it is to turn |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:39 PM Response to Reply #81 |
84. I see the collapse, I see the cold turkey rehab, I see the membrane we'll need to transit... |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 07:44 PM Response to Reply #70 |
86. Of course people have. Marxist economics have been long-debunked. |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 01:39 AM Response to Reply #86 |
89. Link? |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 07:54 PM Response to Reply #89 |
122. I have none for you, but check any economics textbook from the last eighty years. |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 08:37 PM Response to Reply #122 |
126. Well, if you have nothing... |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 11:52 PM Response to Reply #126 |
127. "Of course", yes. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:42 AM Response to Reply #86 |
98. Well, so have Adam Smith and Milton Friedman. |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 07:58 PM Response to Reply #98 |
123. Yes and no. |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
71. 'No! I'm a Revisionist!' |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:10 PM Response to Reply #71 |
78. Oh coitus! |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:29 PM Response to Reply #78 |
82. Six glasses of vin ordinaire and 'e's ready to agitate! |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
73. Fuck No. Course, 'They' Think I'm A Terrorist Too. |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
75. "I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune...." |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:10 PM Response to Reply #75 |
80. Heh, true enough |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 07:45 PM Response to Reply #75 |
87. Comrade Dennis has always reminded me decidedly of myself. |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
77. THEY wouldn't know how to write 1 paragraph on what a Marxist is. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:46 AM Response to Reply #77 |
100. 95% percent of "we" wouldn't know how to either. |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 09:12 AM Response to Reply #100 |
109. Yes, but "we" aren't hurling it around as an insult, now are we? |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
85. I'm not an -ist, but Marx has more to say about today's world than Greenspan. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 07:46 PM Response to Reply #85 |
88. Now that I think about it. Did Greenspan ever say anything that made any sense? |
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Naturyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 01:54 AM Response to Original message |
90. No, but pretty close. |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 01:57 AM Response to Original message |
91. What a silly question. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 04:11 AM Response to Reply #91 |
106. Hm, I see. My husband's niece lives up there; her husband is one of those ice trucker dudes... |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:23 AM Response to Original message |
94. Yes, I am |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:44 AM Response to Reply #94 |
99. Good god, a voice of reason. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 04:04 AM Response to Reply #99 |
104. Like Obama said, "They don't know what to call me." I'd say *the poor dears*... |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:26 AM Response to Original message |
95. No. I'm an Obamist |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 04:05 AM Response to Reply #95 |
105. Now let's not get all that way, gf, I suffer a similar fate: I'm an optimist in spite of it all... |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:28 AM Response to Original message |
96. No |
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asteroid2003QQ47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:48 AM Response to Original message |
101. Paleo Communist checking in. n/t |
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RavingMadwoman (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:52 AM Response to Original message |
102. Am I a Marxist? |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:58 AM Response to Reply #102 |
103. Welcome to DU... |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 08:03 AM Response to Reply #102 |
108. It's not at all "frowned upon" by Marxism |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
110. Hmmm, anything but a communist.. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 10:10 AM Response to Reply #110 |
111. Every system has it's downfalls. But communism, applied cross multiple time zones... |
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Two Americas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 10:49 AM Response to Reply #111 |
113. why is it.... |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 11:12 AM Response to Reply #113 |
114. Yeah, what he said. |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 11:19 AM Response to Reply #113 |
115. "Why is it that any and all negative and destructive government actions |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 12:44 PM Response to Reply #110 |
116. Sigh |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:08 PM Response to Reply #116 |
119. Yeah, I like me some Bakunin too. |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:08 AM Response to Reply #119 |
129. OMG, I have the best link ever for you. |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 11:54 PM Response to Reply #110 |
128. Or maybe it was because of the massive global disaster Leninism has been. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 07:59 AM Response to Reply #128 |
138. Hmm, compared to capitalism? |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 11:13 AM Response to Reply #138 |
141. Yes, compared to capitalism. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 11:36 AM Response to Reply #141 |
142. Right. |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 11:53 AM Response to Reply #142 |
143. The numbers simply don't compare. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 10:56 AM Response to Reply #143 |
151. That's right, they don't. |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
118. Damn. Now you make us look up archaic vocabulary? I'll get back to you on edit. |
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JanMichael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
120. But of course I am. That's been known here on DU since 2002. |
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SalmonChantedEvening (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
124. There ain't no Sanity Claus |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
125. No, I'm an American capitalist nt |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:13 AM Response to Original message |
130. I agree with his thesis that history is largely the story of class struggle |
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Tiggeroshii (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
131. I am a socialist leaning anarchist(libertarian socialist) |
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enigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
132. pragmatic socialist n/t |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
133. I'm a marxist-a-lot |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 01:53 AM Response to Original message |
135. The Marx brothers were OK, I tend to run towards the three stooges, m'self.... |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 05:32 AM Response to Original message |
137. FREE HARPO!!! VIVA GROUCHO!! |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
139. Say the secret word, and I'll bring down the duck. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 01:09 PM Response to Reply #139 |
148. "If I hold you any closer I'll be standing behind you." |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 11:11 AM Response to Reply #148 |
153. Ah, the joy those 50s Marxists! |
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VOX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
140. I'm a white anglo-saxon semi-heathen who's been pushed to the brink of socialism. |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
144. Yes. |
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Tutonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
146. Yes, that and more. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:35 PM Response to Reply #146 |
147. Aunt Bea, is that you? I knew you'd come back... |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
150. They can't define it so maybe I AM. |
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codjh9 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
152. 'They' don't know the diff. between socialism and communism 99% of the time. I'm for socialism |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
156. Personally, I have no problem with that epithet. |
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plasticsundance (786 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
157. Quotes from Karl Marx for the ill-informed Americans |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
159. No. But |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
160. "I once shot an elephant in my pajamas, |
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