To the Resident Marxists...

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Two simple questions:

1). You keep telling us about "the workers" and what they want.

How the heck would you know what workers want, when you never worked a day in your life?

2). You keep telling us about "the capitalists" and "the rich".

How the heck would you know what capitalists want, when you never earned a dollar in your life?

Just asking.
 
Skeptic said:
Two simple questions:

1). You keep telling us about "the workers" and what they want.

How the heck would you know what workers want, when you never worked a day in your life?

2). You keep telling us about "the capitalists" and "the rich".

How the heck would you know what capitalists want, when you never earned a dollar in your life?

Just asking.
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Baha

JK
 
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The Fool said:

Just trolling.
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No, dead serious, actually. Say what you want about the "old guard" communists, but at least they actually put their money where their mouth was: the American Communist Party until the 1950s was made up mostly of people who weathered the great depression as workers in factories. If someone who was a foreman for 20 years tells me he's a worker opressed by the capitalists, I might disagree, but at least I'll listen.

This all changed in the 1950s, when the exposition of Stalin's crime caused the vast majority of actual workers (and sympathizers who knew anything about work) to leave the party in bitter disappointment and renounce communism. Essentially the only marxists left since then are students who took Marx seriously because he wrote well, even when what he wrote was utter nonsense. There is also the psychological angle: calling yourself a "communist" or a "revolutionary" who is "against the rotten capitalist system" lets you feel instantly superior to people with real achievements--above all, to your parents.

It is therefore a VERY safe bet that the resident marxists on this forum, like virtually all marxists today, are college students who never actually worked a day in their lives. You see, nobody else IS a marxist nowadays. What I want to know is, in that case, how can they not see they are making fools of themselves?
 
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Skeptic said:
There is also the psychological angle: calling yourself a "communist" or a "revolutionary" who is "against the rotten capitalist system" lets you feel instantly superior to people with real achievements--above all, to your parents.

Jesus that is so true.

It is therefore a VERY safe bet that the resident marxists on this forum, like virtually all marxists today, are college students who never actually worked a day in their lives. You see, nobody else IS a marxist nowadays. What I want to know is, in that case, how can they not see they are making fools of themselves?
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Ahh hahahaha!

JK
 
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Skeptic said:


It is therefore a VERY safe bet that the resident marxists on this forum, like virtually all marxists today, are college students who never actually worked a day in their lives. You see, nobody else IS a marxist nowadays. What I want to know is, in that case, how can they not see they are making fools of themselves?
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Are redneck college students allowed an opinion, or is it only marxist students who's views are worthless?
 
The Fool said:

Are redneck college students allowed an opinion, or is it only marxist students who's views are worthless?
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You say this as if the two are incompatible. If all students are either rednecks or marxists (true in my experience) then the 'or' should be an 'and'. Really, these logical inconsistancies let the side down.
 
I would be a Marxist if Communist wasn`t based on Utopian values.

I tend to lean on the political left when in a democracy.

Gem
 
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Skeptic said:
It is therefore a VERY safe bet that the resident marxists on this forum, like virtually all marxists today, are college students who never actually worked a day in their lives. You see, nobody else IS a marxist nowadays. What I want to know is, in that case, how can they not see they are making fools of themselves?
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With the potential exception of Malachi, who is there?

Marxism is dead, face it, d e a d dead.
 
ratcomp1974 said:

You say this as if the two are incompatible. If all students are either rednecks or marxists (true in my experience) then the 'or' should be an 'and'. Really, these logical inconsistancies let the side down.
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Not quite sure what you are getting at here. I was asking if one category of students political opinions are invalid due to the fact that they are not "working" does this render other students opinions equally invalid.

But while I'm thinking about it....Does this also apply to the unemployed? I don't work on weekends, Should I only be able to have a valid opinion on weekdays?
 
The Fool said:


Not quite sure what you are getting at here. I was asking if one category of students political opinions are invalid due to the fact that they are not "working" does this render other students opinions equally invalid.

But while I'm thinking about it....Does this also apply to the unemployed? I don't work on weekends, Should I only be able to have a valid opinion on weekdays?
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Well, I was just taking the p. You seemed to be asking "A, or not B?". Don't lose any sleep.

It doesn't necessarily apply to the unemployed. For the reasons given, it doesn't necessarily apply to students (though students shouldn't be allowed opinions for other reasons), but it really applies to the idle. Few student communists can hold their own in an argument, I find. That doesn't mean it's necessarily an invalid argument, just that they're no good at making it stick.
 
Who are the "resident Marxists"? (I've previously been called a Marxist on this board).

What makes you think they're Marxists? And by "Marxist" I am specifically relating to the tenets of Marx as outlined in important works, not the politicized term used for propaganda purposes.

Oh, what's that, you have absolutely nothing? Go away, troll.
 
Cain said:

Oh, what's that, you have absolutely nothing? Go away, troll.
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Can anyone have their own opinion with out receiving ad Hominem replies?
 
Baker said:


Can anyone have their own opinion with out receiving ad Hominem replies?
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The whole topic is an ad-hominem. He has made assumptions about posters being marxist, unemployed students, and attacked that assumption.

I am still waiting for stories of a bulldozer driver called skeptic.
 
The Fool said:


Not quite sure what you are getting at here. I was asking if one category of students political opinions are invalid due to the fact that they are not "working" does this render other students opinions equally invalid.

But while I'm thinking about it....Does this also apply to the unemployed? I don't work on weekends, Should I only be able to have a valid opinion on weekdays?
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Hey Fool, I have a question for you. I didn't want to start another thread about it.

In Australia on the news was there a report of a 19 year old New Zealand tourist gang-raped by five homosexual men for his ATM PIN card number?

I was just wondering what the Aussie media is saying about it. I read this article here about the incident.

JK
 
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