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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKarl Marx would be proud of Trump's White House, I think.
The ultimate goal of Marx's communism was the creation of a "classless society" and Trump and his peeps demonstrate daily that they are nothing if not "classless."
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Karl Marx would be proud of Trump's White House, I think. (Original Post)
Atticus
Jul 2017
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standingtall
(3,147 posts)1. No he wouldn't
The system before Marx's communism is what Russia is today and what Trump is trying to turn America into. Where the country is fully controlled by autocrats and the lower classes have absolutely no voice.
There's 'classless' and there's 'classless.'
grantcart
(53,061 posts)3. Technically no
Using the Hegelian Dialectic as a determinate paradigm for inevitable human progression there would be no accounting for going down a wormhole and ending up with "Batshit Crazy".
malaise
(294,261 posts)4. Not at all
Marx was not speaking of class as in 'classless' behavior - he was speaking about the class that rules and the rest of us. For Marx, the Groper Don the Con and his ilk are the class that has to be overthrown.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)5. Atticus, I think they are not getting your pun
Atticus
(15,124 posts)6. Ya think? Sheesh! nt
johnp3907
(4,257 posts)9. It put a grin on this socialist's face.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)10. Then it was worth it. nt
Not at all.
Took me a minute. Always better to read a post fully before making an ass of myself, I suppose.
Well done!
Atticus
(15,124 posts)11. Thank you. nt
