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Old 13th August 2009
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Originally Posted by Almanac View Post
Crude straw men. Equating a moderate libertarian with a Marxist ideologue is just silly. Marxism involves a whole series of assumptions about human nature which are intrinsic to its utopic vision. It assumes that man is solely a material being and that the key to his happiness lies in creating an earthly economic eschaton. Hence the preposterous claims about the fruits of the revolution.
Is someone an Eric Voegelin fan?
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