Karl Marx, father of Socialism, Communism, and Marxism, three different views of the same overall philosophy, was recently quoted in a blog. The blog of an official of the Obama Administration.
Rick Bookstaber, of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (a mess of unelected goons created by the Dodd-Frank dung-splat) recently posted this little gem on his blog (full post available at http://rick.bookstaber.com/2012/05/class-warfare.html).
The capitalist maintains his rights as a purchaser when he tries to make the working-day as long as possible, and to make, whenever possible, two working-days out of one. On the other hand, the peculiar nature of the commodity sold implies a limit to its consumption by the purchaser, and the laborer maintains his right as seller when he wishes to reduce the working-day to one of definite normal duration. There is here, therefore, an antinomy, right against right, both equally bearing the seal of the law of exchanges. Between equal rights force decides. Hence is it that in the history of capitalist production, the determination of what is a working-day, presents itself as the result of a struggle, a struggle between collective capital, i.e., the class of capitalists, and collective labour, i.e., the working-class. – Marx, Das Kapital
Marx’s theories formed the most anti-American views of the 20th century, and are alive and well in the 21st. This nation was founded on Capitalism, as Capitalism IS freedom. Capitalism is freedom to market your goods and skills and obtain a price for them based on their worth to others. Marxism and it’s brothers are methods of working for what the government tells you you’re going to charge, giving the portion they tell you to give over to their control, and change your rates only when (or if) they tell you to do so. That is not freedom. That is slavery to the Government.
With all the hub-bub that has been around since Obama first came on the scene, with him being a revolutionary Marxist in college, his relations with known Socialists, terrorists, Marxists, revolutionaries, and Communists, and the newest, him using “Forward” for his campaign slogan (a simple word which has extremely strong and numerous historical links to Socialist/Communist political agendas) you would think that people who are working for him would have the smarts to quote someone besides Marx.
Apparently, you would be wrong.
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