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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 12:55 PM Original message |
Poll question: Marxism is... |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. Marx's diagnosis of the problems were and still are spot on. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 01:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Actually Trotsky anticipated the tyranny that was Soviet socialism. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:52 PM Response to Reply #2 |
21. That's howcome he got dead, huh. |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 01:11 AM Response to Reply #21 |
39. "Mr. Stalin, in Mexico City, with the ice pick." |
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FKA MNChimpH8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 01:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Ding ding ding! |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 01:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Exactly what I was about to say. |
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paulsby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
23. *if* |
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TheCoxwain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 03:12 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. it because .. implementing it is a pie in the sky .. |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 12:50 AM Response to Reply #25 |
35. Democracy has nothing to do with it -nt- |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 04:51 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. His numbers are all wrong though |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 06:47 PM Response to Reply #23 |
33. Nope. |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
3. Good theory, has some mistakes. Kind of like Free Market Economics. nt |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
4. Marx's descriptions were dead on |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
7. Another vote for Groucho! |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
8. *honk honk* |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
9. Marxism is... |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:40 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Yep, what he said |
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IntravenousDemilo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 03:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
27. Yes, Marx never really anticipated that socialism would be implemented in places like Russia. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 12:40 AM Response to Reply #27 |
34. 1930s USA would have been a good place to start |
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laststeamtrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
11. Other. Marxism is... |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
12. ...Totally Fucking Stupid. |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:47 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Why dis it? capitalism is a dead end |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:49 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Yep - inflation kills us all |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:48 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Every inch of it? Or just recent applications? |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:49 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. He Was An Overzealous Jackass; Not A Genius. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:51 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Overzealous, yes |
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skypilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 03:48 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. I'm not convinced that he wasn't a jackass. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 04:48 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Karl Marx WAS a self-hating Jew |
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Alamuti Lotus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 01:11 AM Response to Reply #30 |
38. Nietzsche as anti-Semitic?! |
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laststeamtrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 03:09 PM Response to Reply #12 |
24. Dude, like totally. |
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geek tragedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
13. A valid analytical tool, but worthless in terms of governance. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 01:05 AM Response to Reply #13 |
36. Well said! (nt) |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
15. More correct than it is incorrect |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
19. Other: Not on my plate |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
22. If we're voting based on the pics, Trots looks the most like Johnny Depp |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
26. A helluva a lot better than capitalism, but still relies bosses. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
28. Marx had many good ideas but his Hegelianism totally turned the rest to crap. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 04:50 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. That, and his Dialectical Materialism |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 01:09 AM Response to Original message |
37. I'm just wondering how Trotsky got those glasses to stay on his face. |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 01:26 AM Response to Original message |
40. Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. |
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FKA MNChimpH8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 01:29 AM Response to Original message |
41. Marx got the diagnosis exactly right, but TR and FDR |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
42. There is nothing wrong with Marxism. It is the only sensible way to study history. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 02:58 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. "Influenced" != "only sensible way" |
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