Marx: Is the price tag really worth it?

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  1. cpurick

    cpurick Why don't they just call it "Leftforge"?

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    So what's the running total -- about a million lives per year? And who knows how much wealth his idiot followers have cost us even to this day.
     
  2. actormike

    actormike Okay, Connery...

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    Richard Marx? Dude, just turn the radio off.
     
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  3. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Even with the radio on, it don't mean nothin...no victim, no crime...

    [yt=It don't mean nothing]k8E_dkESwzg[/yt]
     
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  4. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!"
     
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  5. Muad Dib

    Muad Dib Probably a Dual Deceased Member

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    We've spent rought $15 trillion, equivalent to the current national debt, since the 1960's on the War on Poverty and the best we had to show for it was a roughly 2% decrease in the poverty rate. Interestingly, the poverty rate has recently upticked slightly.
     
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  6. 14thDoctor

    14thDoctor Oi

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    That's an interesting enough topic for it's own thread, but I'm gonna need some links and details, just so I know you're not making shit up.

    Seriously. It'd make a great thread.
     
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  7. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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  8. skinofevil

    skinofevil Fresh Meat

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    FTFY
     
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  9. RickDeckard

    RickDeckard Socialist

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    Given how you've just been eviscerated in one thread concerning your complete ignorance of Marx and Marxism, it is curious that you decided to open a second.
     
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  10. skinofevil

    skinofevil Fresh Meat

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    Shut up, you're a toaster.
     
  11. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    Karl Marx, in principle, had some decent, debatable ideas. Of course, they were ideas based purely on theory. Trotsky and Lenin came along and manipluted them for their money's worth and the rest is history.

    And no, before anyone suggests it, I am not in agreement with Marx, or a Marx fan. Just pointing out the absurdity of ignorance.
     
  12. skinofevil

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    Marx was a pretentious idiot whose theory didn't work in his own time and has never worked at any time since.
     
  13. We Are Borg

    We Are Borg Republican Democrat

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    Lame parody thread is lame.
     
  14. K.

    K. Sober

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    Right. Because Communism never became any kind of major political movement, and if the proletariat ever did rise up, the result certainly wasn't a dictatorship.

    :bullseye:
     
  15. NAHTMMM

    NAHTMMM Perpetually sondering

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    It's only a statistic.


    :innocent:
     
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  16. Forbin

    Forbin Do you feel fluffy, punk?

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    I'm not aware that Marx was any more expensive than Topper or Mattel.
     
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  17. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    But which is a kid most likely to shove up his nose?

     
  18. Muad Dib

    Muad Dib Probably a Dual Deceased Member

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  19. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    When has Marxism ever been tried? I mean actual Marxism, not something parroting his theories.
     
  20. Hood

    Hood Wibble Cunt

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    Perhaps they have, but there's something inherently flawed in those theories that leads to authoritarian and genocidal lunacy.
     
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  21. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Involving people.
     
  22. RickDeckard

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    That would require the Marxist view of history to be correct in the first place. It is not. Marxists needed to change stuff to get reality to fit the theories.
     
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