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In reply to the discussion: We'd be better off if Obama WAS a Marxist. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)20. That was what I was trying to say.
When people on the right say "Marxism", they usually mean what the Stalinists got up to. I was trying to clarify the massive distinction.
If Marx had come back to life and showed up in Moscow during Stalin's era, Stalin would have had him shot.
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I included an assumption, in the OP, that he had a Congress he could work with.
Ken Burch
Oct 2013
#2
I'm with you. I have heard estimates that society's needs could be met with a 10 hour week.
immoderate
Oct 2013
#19
I also think of people like James Connolly and Rosa Luxemburg-and John MacLean in Scotland
Ken Burch
Oct 2013
#26
Well, everyone who ever proposed any sort of genuine, transformational change
Ken Burch
Nov 2013
#36
As I said, the OP called on people to put "electability" out of their minds here.
Ken Burch
Oct 2013
#31