Benj said: “I posted a few days back on what I thought was most valuable in Marx (avec caveats). But I’ll underline it one more time. As long as millions of folks have no choice but to sell their time – whether in factories or Thai whorehouses – Marx’s analysis of their dailiness on-the-cross will matter bigtime…”

Karl Marx was a nut; he saw people as “economic molecules” and cogs in the state mechanism. Karl Marx viewed human rights as reversible privileges provided to us little cogs and molecules by an all-powerful Socialist State – which he worshiped. Our founding fathers, on the other hand, viewed people as individuals – each made in the image of God – and each endowed with sacred irreversible human rights. Karl Marx did not believe that just government power derives from the consent of the governed; he believed that government power derives from an elite cabal of “Philosopher Kings” such as himself – no consent required. Karl Marx was the philosopher of the all-powerful Socialist State, the philosopher of tyranny.

As for people selling their time in factories, there is nothing wrong with that. Many peoople in my family worked in factories and/or farms. What is different under Marxism, is that the Socialist State owns those factories and farms, and the Socialist State is the worst possible employer imaginable; you are employed as a slave by the tyrant state. Human life, human liberty, human creativity and human prosperity are crushed by the all-powerful Marxist Socialist State; it can’t be otherwise because at the end of the day those little factory workers are recognized as economic molecules, and molecules do not deserve any God-given human rights.

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” Karl Marx

“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.” Karl Marx

“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.” Karl Marx

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution….Workingmen of all countries, unite!” Karl Marx

“The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.” Karl Marx

“I declared to them point-blank: we have received our mandate as the representatives of the proletarian party from no one but ourselves.” Karl Marx