A Complete Waste of Space

So who has really read anything by Karl Marx? Just curious since people take for and against socialism/capitalism etc. here, wonder if anyone has actually read say Max Weber or Adam Smith for that matter. Myself read excerpts of Marx, Lenin, and a fair bit of Adam Smith and Max Weber, Marx is rather difficult to read.

I have a copy somewhere from when I was a lot younger. Read it all, absorbed the philosophy, questioned parts of it. But I can see the impact it would have had at the time.

Despite the allegation by a certain lunatic who posts here, it did not turn me into a Marxist or a Communist, but I did use it for a paper at college, paricularly the parts on wealth/resource distribution, it was the early 90's and I posited that with the onset of computer networks and number crunching etc etc, a viable mechanism was on the horizon to achieve equality based on merit and need. It was naive, but I gained a credit for it

Read anything by Sol Alinsky?


Old Pudfark sez: "Read'em an weep"

Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto were among the ridiculous pile of 23 books that we were required to read(and buy, luckily all in paperback) for Political Science 101 in college. Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Thomas Paine and others were all in the mix, to where we had a wide spectrum to compare and contrast. Of the 23, there was only one I didn't really read......I don't even recall which, but do remember that the damned professor asked an essay question about it on the final!

Pudfark wrote:Read anything by Sol Alinsky?


Old Pudfark sez: "Read'em an weep"

I think you mis sleepd his frist nmae

Saul perhaps, rules for radicals ?

You might be better reading up on Machiavelli and then learning how to spell Then you can work it from within, rather than looking like an idiot, smelling like and idiot, and being a de facto, idiot.

JoeA wrote:Marx is rather difficult to read.

try Hobbes......arrrghh!

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