From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Aug 05 2005 - 13:55:57 BST
Hi JC:
> At 8:09 AM -0400 8/2/05, Platt Holden wrote:
> >
> >Your emphasis on lives over "static wealth piles" reveals your agreement
> >with the premise penned by the socialist's favorite brujo, Karl Marx --
> >"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
> >Historically we know what that led to.
>
> But we don't know where it's going from here.
The past is prologue.
> I recently read a book by Erich Fromme about Karl Marx and I was
> quite taken by his (Marx's) thinking. I don't think it's fair to
> judge him by what the Russians did with communism. Marx's main
> bugaboo was what industrial society was gearing up to do to man -turn him
> into a commodity machine. Look around you. He was right.
Look around at Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia and China. Which Marxist worker's
paradise would you want to live in?
> And I'm an avid proponent of dot-communism. The open source software
> movement and the linux operating system are excellent examples of ways in
> which Marx's maxim can actually work. Human minds freed to contribute
> intellectual excellence over the internet and absorb the same are somewhat
> analogous, IMO, to electrical current at absolute zero - the proverbial
> free lunch. When ideas can flow between us freely, it is simple and right
> to give according to our ability and take according to our needs.
So this site (MD) is an example of Marxism in action? I see a lot of
giving of opinions, but not much taking. :-)
Platt
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