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In reply to the discussion: Karl Marx: 10 great quotes on his birthday [View all]joshcryer
(62,332 posts)94. Castro's Cuba has an incarceration rate that rivals the US's.
And they just backed prostitution in Havana's Red Light District after Mariela Castro's visit to capitalist Amsterdam:
They only had to instate MUAP where those such as homosexuals, "bourgeois," "counterrevolutionaries," and others were incarcerated. And it only took fifty years.
Now the resorts are going up and the leaders are leasing away bits of Cuba one plot at a time.
As I keep saying, all Cuba needs now are the Casinos, and they will come, and Batista's vision will be realized.
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130 years after he died, people are posting his ideas on an internet message board,
Zorra
May 2012
#18
On the internet you will find people posting the ideas of Stalin, Hitler, Lenin and Mao
former9thward
May 2012
#23
Well, I do think Lenin and Marx share the commonality of dialectical materialism. Lenin turned
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#79
Alright, I suppose I can accept some similarities with Lenin as far as ideology goes
Bjorn Against
May 2012
#87
Dialectical materialism and historical materialism only have one outcome, imo.
joshcryer
May 2012
#95
You do realize that he was one of the key founders of modern social science?
Bjorn Against
May 2012
#32
Your mere assertion does not make it so. But you believe whatever you want - n/t
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#81
There are no utopias in Marx. He was an analyst of capitalism, not a designer of utopias.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#35
Russia was held up by the Eastern Bloc which they occupied for decades (Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact).
joshcryer
May 2012
#111
Cuba is on the verge of political revolution, and Capriles will not cut them off.
joshcryer
May 2012
#108
Capriles, the likely next President of Venezuela, will be elected by the people.
joshcryer
May 2012
#112
"Gattungswesen" is not "human nature." Marx's view of "human nature" was fine.
joshcryer
May 2012
#93
Wow how could you find a more authoritive source than Moody Church Media Ministries!
Bjorn Against
May 2012
#90
Yeah, Christian dominionist garbage is pretty unsettling to find on a democratic chatboard.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#88
the sources you've read like fake quotes. as i already demonstrated re the "monster" quote.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#83
I find no such quote in the most complete database of Marx/Engels work that exists.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#51
marx was a terrible prognosticator (history not being a science but a humanity)
arely staircase
May 2012
#15
oh i read everything from feminist social historians to traditional military historians
arely staircase
May 2012
#54
um, because there were some preconditions....and preconditional prognostications?
HiPointDem
May 2012
#69
don't want to give you anything, just sounding you out on marx's prognostications. you sounded
HiPointDem
May 2012
#76
you claimed marx's prognostications failed. just wanted to see what you were talking about.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#80
and you asked for an example, i gave you one and asked for contrary examples and you had nothing.
arely staircase
May 2012
#98
i didn't ask for "examples", i asked: "his prognostication*s* being?" so no, it doesn't.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#106
and you never had anything but what you read in the mainstream media -- other people
HiPointDem
May 2012
#119
you made the claim. i asked you to back it up. you can't, you just have boilerplate.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#123