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[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> No. There's a world of difference between engineering a society towards tyranny
> vs. towards individual freedom. Marxists fit the former category. It's the
> difference between the Russian revolution and the American revolution.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Maybe you should read Marx, rather that recite talk-radio propaganda.
> 
> I don't agree with all of Marx's ideas, but I do know his concern was
> individual liberty. Unlike Strauss, however, Marx overestimates the
> intelligence and nature of man. Strauss sees people as too weak and stupid and
> in need of controlling. Marx saw man as wanting, and demanding, a egalitarian
> world. You can criticize Marx for thinking too highly of man, I suppose, and
> loft up Strauss to prove how base and selfish we are by nature.
> 
> But your talk-radio soundbites are hollow to anyone who has actually read and
> studied Marx, or neo-Marxist literature.

Yes, we're all well aware that you lean towards communism and material 
"egalitarianism." 





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