On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:31 AM, // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
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> I am writing up a response to this libertarian blog post that was quoted by a friend:
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> http://swaminomics.org/?p=1882
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> (the author is an Indian journalist who is a research fellow at Cato)
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> And one thing with which I can use some help from youse guys is this claim by Aiyar (the author) that "Welfarism was once touted as the great Marxist vision". From the little I know of Marx and his ideas, this does not make much sense. In my understanding, Marx's prescriptions are not the sort of market socialism one sees in the West which provides the context for talk of "entitlements".
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> Thoughts?
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> --ravi
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