Rudy v. Marxists

[frances bolton]

Doug posted the following:
>
>That, the mayor said, "means taking jobs away from people. It means
>seeing unemployment go up. It means really hurting people who need
>the most help. And it's a true misunderstanding of what America is
>all about. That comes from the influence of Marxism, and if you need
>any better indication of it, it was said at a Marxist study group.
>
>"So philosophy is important. It has done a tremendous amount of good
>things to help people, and the isms and ideologies of this century
>have cost an awful lot of human lives," the mayor concluded.
>
Huh? I see that each of these words is english. I even see that some small
groups of them, when taken together, make sense (ex: the mayor said) but I
cannot, for the life of me, figure out what he's talking about it the second
paragraph. What does he think philosophy is about?

Quizzically,

Frances