Vote for Karl Marx!

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Fri Dec 17 06:57:49 PST 1999



> > 1. Mahatma Gandhi
> > 2. Leonardo da Vinci
> > 3. Nelson Mandela
> > 4. Sir Isaac Newton
> > 5. Albert Einstein
> > 6. Martin Luther King
> > 7. Jesus Christ
> > 8. Sir Winston Churchill
> > 9. Charles Darwin
> > 10. Karl Marx
>
>"Real" Marxists would not seek to promote the efforts of one man over
>other equally revolutionary people.
>
>"Real" Marxists would instead be trying to bump Nelson Mandela and Martin
>Luther King up higher, along with Marx, and help keep Gandhi where he is.

No offense to Mandela, King or Gandhi, but I did just vote for Karl Marx as person of the millennium on this site for the same reason I applaud the direct-demonstrators in Seattle: This man and those demonstrators are the ones who are most disturbing to mainstream sensibilities; there is no way their message can be coopted.

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