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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (29293)9/27/2006 4:09:46 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 541358
 
Level them off by transferring their money to the poor, sure, so that they aren't so rich and the poor aren't so poor. Egalitarian, like E said.

You are mixing the crucial degree of redistribution. Marx wasn't talking about a careful leveling down to an egalitarian level, he advocated taking away capital, in effect, and making it a publicly-owned good. Bye bye capitalists through expropriation. The goal of making them "not so rich" but leaving them intact as a class was not on the table.

That's what the man talked about in his writings, whatever educational level one was exposed to them, if ever. Anything supposedly "rooted" in that philosophy shouldn't actually be a 90-degree tangent to the meaning of the word Marxism.

That's like saying that someone who wants to scale back affirmative action is rooted in the old National Party in South Africa, IMHO, or a fan of Mein Kampf.
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