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Marxism is discredited in the western world.

In Reply to: I think there's a difference between Marx and the marxists posted by Lark on November 12, 1999 at 11:45:22:

: : As for me, I'll sit in front of my T.V. set, glass of juice in hand, and watch the episode of C.O.P.S. where these lunatics are picked up for some violent crime or other. I shall quaff my bourgeois pleasure, safe in the notion that these Orwellian horrors are safely under lock and key. Until that happy day, you may find me...

: What? You think your safe?

Don: He is. Marxism is discredited in the western world. Stoller and the like are going nowhere fast--except jail, if they decide to act out their fantasy. The third world may play host to this or that marxist regime for the next few generations, until it becomes discredited there as well.

Follow Ups:

• The perceived security of the bourgeois Samuel Day Fassbinder Citizens for Mustard Greens USA November 15 1999 (5)
  • The subject was Orwellian horrors, not green fantasy DonS USA November 17 1999 (4)
    • You think you're safe? Samuel Day Fassbinder Citizens for Mustard Greens USA November 17 1999 (3)
      • He doesn't have confidence in the current fascist government that runs the US DonS USA November 19 1999 (2)
        • He's just an ideologue Samuel Day Fassbinder Citizens for Mustard Greens USA November 19 1999 (1)
          • The people who live off my labor are the various scum who collect government paychecks. DonS USA November 24 1999 (0)