The heart of a leftist/Last time

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Wed Jul 12 16:47:17 PDT 2000


Brad, Marx was careful NOT to describe communism, because he thought that the details should be worked out by the people. Would you say to a Christian that Jesus was responsible for the killing of an abortion doctor because he did not work out in detail?


>
> And I think it is fair to say that this mode of thought is deeply
> rooted in the writings of Karl Marx, who spent so much time
> denouncing private ownership of the means of production as a blocker
> of human liberty and so little time detailing just how and in just
> what dimensions Communism was supposed to make people more free.
>

-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

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