Is Obama a socialist/ Marxist by Defenition - Part #2
The image to the left aptly describes the result of every communist totalitarian government that has existed since Karl Marx and the publishing of The Communist Manifesto. Marx however was not a politician nor a government official. He started no political party nor did he actively involve himself with a particular political movement. Marx, aside from being a 19th century economics and social philosopher was a pragmatist in some respects and an idealist in others. Not unlike many of us today. While I find the the results of his economic model and social philosophy, as practiced and perverted by Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Castro , to be revolting, I can not argue with much of his theoretical economic premises as he expressed them in his writings. I was called to task by a person whose intelligence and integrity I respect, and was reminded that Karl Marx's work, taken in context and in the ...