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To: Lane3 who wrote (29261)	9/27/2006 12:41:12 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541339

" I doubt the author meant "Marxist" as a slur." Sorry. I couldn't possibly agree with you on that. Centrists are just as prone to slur people as anyone else- they simply slur the extremes, while the extremes are busy slurring the centrists. That's just the way it is.

To: Lane3 who wrote (29261)	9/27/2006 12:41:12 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541339

Have to disagree - Marxism is based on the notion that capitalists extract unfair wealth from exploited laborers, and must be eliminated as a class through class struggle, to be replaced by a system where everyone works in socialist production for the greater good. That has nothing to do with modern Democratic politics, or any Democratic politics I ever heard of - that is pure socialist Berkeley lefty stuff. Can you cite any modern Democrats who advocate the demise of capitalism? Not just a policy nuance, here and there, but actual class warfare?