Marx

Watching modern debates one would think that Marxians and Free Market Advocates would have nothing in common. Such over generalizations are usually untrue and mask the reasons behind the ferocity of the debate. Truth is, there are key points of agreement and key points of disagreement.


Points of Agreement: (Quotes are from the Manifesto, Chapter 1).

1) "The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations."

2) "The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe."

3) "The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production "

4) "The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe."


Points of Disagreement:

1) "in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation."

2) "The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation."

3) "The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones."

Something to think about. I have more I want to say ... but it can wait.

BK