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Pastimes : Rage Against the Machine
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To: Thomas M. who started this subject6/29/2003 5:16:06 PM
From: Thomas M. of 1296
 
George Monbiot comments on "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels:

<<< The definitive example of how inspiring a bad idea can be. It is hard to read this book without wanting to pick up a gun and shoot the nearest industrialist. But because the theory so woefully failed to fit society, society had to be remodelled to fit the theory. The peasants, aristocrats, artisans and shopkeepers did not, as Marx suggested, disappear of their own accord: they had to be eliminated. The "social scum" of the lumpenproletariat, which came to include indigenous people, had to be disposed of just as hastily, in case they became, as Marx warned, "the bribed tool of reactionary intrigue". Contemporary communists often claim that Marx's prescriptions were corrupted by Stalin and Mao. My impression is the opposite: the problem is that they were rigidly applied. >>>

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