Adam Smith was a Marxist

[bripat9643]

Smith was okay with the rich paying more than their share, since they got more out of society, wanted no taxes on necessities but was fine with taxes on luxuries, and wanted corporations to continue to be banned. That Marxist enough for you?

Check out this site. David Korten offers an in depth understanding of Adam Smith...

The Betrayal of Adam Smith - Excerpt

Why would we care what some commie Harvard professor has to say about Adam Smith?

 

[bripat9643]

Check out this site. David Korten offers an in depth understanding of Adam Smith...

The Betrayal of Adam Smith - Excerpt:

"Smith strongly disliked both governments and corporations. He viewed government primarily as an instrument for extracting taxes to subsidize elites and intervening in the market to protect corporate monopolies."

isn't learning fun?

Yes, it is:

"Adam Smith was as acutely aware of issues of power and class as he was of the dynamics of competitive markets. However, the neoclassical economists and the neo-Marxist economists bifurcated his holistic perspective on the political economy, one taking those portions of the analysis that favored the owners of property, and the other taking those that favored the sellers of labor. Thus, the neoclassical economists left out Smith's considerations of the destructive role of power and class, and the neo-Marxists left out the beneficial functions of the market. Both advanced extremist social experiments on a massive scale that embodied a partial vision of society, with disastrous consequences.

If corporate libertarians had a serious allegiance to market principles and human rights, they would be calling for policies aimed at achieving the conditions under which markets function in a democratic fashion in the public interest. They would be calling for an end to corporate welfare, the breakup of corporate monopolies, the equitable distribution of property ownership, the internalization of social and environmental costs, local ownership, a living wage for working people, rooted capital, and a progressive tax system. Corporate libertarianism is not about creating the conditions that market theory argues will optimize the public interest, because its real concern is with private, not public, interests."

In other words, you think libertarians should be calling for fascism.

There is no such thing as "corporate libertarianism."

 

[georgephillip]

Check out this site. David Korten offers an in depth understanding of Adam Smith...

"Smith...opposed any form of economic concentration on the ground that it distorts the market's natural ability to establish a price that provides a fair return on land, labor, and capital."
Marx would say much the same thing.
When Corporations Rule the World Living Economies Forum

 

[georgephillip]

Why would we care what some commie Harvard professor has to say about Adam Smith?

"David C. Korten (born 1937) is an American author, former professor of the Harvard Business School,political activist, prominent critic of corporateglobalization, and "by training and inclination a student of psychology and behavioral systems".[1] His best-known publication is, When Corporations Rule the World (1995 and 2001). In 2011, he was named an Utne Reader visionary."
What makes Korten a commie?
David Korten - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[bripat9643]

Why would we care what some commie Harvard professor has to say about Adam Smith?

"David C. Korten (born 1937) is an American author, former professor of the Harvard Business School,political activist, prominent critic of corporateglobalization, and "by training and inclination a student of psychology and behavioral systems".[1] His best-known publication is, When Corporations Rule the World (1995 and 2001). In 2011, he was named an Utne Reader visionary."
What makes Korten a commie?
David Korten - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

A book titled "when corporations rule the world" is obviously an attack on capitalism. His bio also says he's a critic of "globalization" - capitalism, in other words.

The guy's a commie.

 

[georgephillip]

A book titled "when corporations rule the world" is obviously an attack on capitalism. His bio also says he's a critic of "globalization" - capitalism, in other words.

The guy's a commie.

Read his Wiki:
"David Korten was born in Longview, Washington in 1937 and is a 1955 graduate of its R. A. Long High School. He received a master of business administration and Ph.D. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He said: "My early career [after leaving Stanford in 1959] was devoted to setting up business schools in low-income countries—starting with Ethiopia". He served during the Vietnam War as a captain in the United States Air Force, undertaking U.S.-based teaching and organizational duties;[1] and for five and a half years was a visiting professor in the Harvard Business School. While at Stanford in the 1950s, he married Frances Fisher Korten, with whom he now lives on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Washington."
David Korten - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[bripat9643]

A book titled "when corporations rule the world" is obviously an attack on capitalism. His bio also says he's a critic of "globalization" - capitalism, in other words.

The guy's a commie.

Read his Wiki:
"David Korten was born in Longview, Washington in 1937 and is a 1955 graduate of its R. A. Long High School. He received a master of business administration and Ph.D. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He said: "My early career [after leaving Stanford in 1959] was devoted to setting up business schools in low-income countries—starting with Ethiopia". He served during the Vietnam War as a captain in the United States Air Force, undertaking U.S.-based teaching and organizational duties;[1] and for five and a half years was a visiting professor in the Harvard Business School. While at Stanford in the 1950s, he married Frances Fisher Korten, with whom he now lives on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Washington."
David Korten - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

How does that prove he's not a commie. Certainly, his pseudo Peace Corps experience indicates he is a commie. If you peruse the rest of his Wiki biography it reads like the resume of your typical leftwing activist.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Smith was okay with the rich paying more than their share, since they got more out of society, wanted no taxes on necessities but was fine with taxes on luxuries, and wanted corporations to continue to be banned. That Marxist enough for you?

Check out this site. David Korten offers an in depth understanding of Adam Smith...

The Betrayal of Adam Smith - Excerpt

Why would we care what some commie Harvard professor has to say about Adam Smith?

Why should you care? Because he's much smarter than you are. Why won't your care? Because you're a moron who can't deal with reality.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

You dummies would, but you are reactionaries. When someone says it's okay for the rich to pay more, that corporations should be banned, in your worldview that is a Marxist.

dear, why be so stupid!! Name a modern conservative who calls Smith a Marxist. See why we say a liberal will be slow??

if you don't admit you were mistaken how will you learn??

That, lover, has already been explained to you. I'll not do it again.

dear, why be so stupid!! Why so afraid to name a modern conservative who calls Smith a Marxist.

Lover, I don't need to since that is not the point of the thread now is it?

It's the central premise of this thread.

No. it isn't. The premise of this thread was to show that you little morons don't know Smith or Marx, and that was proved days ago.

 

[bripat9643]

Smith was okay with the rich paying more than their share, since they got more out of society, wanted no taxes on necessities but was fine with taxes on luxuries, and wanted corporations to continue to be banned. That Marxist enough for you?

Check out this site. David Korten offers an in depth understanding of Adam Smith...

The Betrayal of Adam Smith - Excerpt

Why would we care what some commie Harvard professor has to say about Adam Smith?

Why should you care? Because he's much smarter than you are. Why won't your care? Because you're a moron who can't deal with reality.

Wrong and wrong.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Smith was okay with the rich paying more than their share, since they got more out of society, wanted no taxes on necessities but was fine with taxes on luxuries, and wanted corporations to continue to be banned. That Marxist enough for you?

Check out this site. David Korten offers an in depth understanding of Adam Smith...

The Betrayal of Adam Smith - Excerpt

Why would we care what some commie Harvard professor has to say about Adam Smith?

Why should you care? Because he's much smarter than you are. Why won't your care? Because you're a moron who can't deal with reality.

Wrong and wrong.

Oh how I wish that were true, but it isn't my little infant. The most basic of things you still cannot understand, like most here.

 

[georgephillip]

How does that prove he's not a commie. Certainly, his pseudo Peace Corps experience indicates he is a commie. If yo

Why don't you link to any of Korten's writings that prove he is a communist?

 

[bripat9643]

How does that prove he's not a commie. Certainly, his pseudo Peace Corps experience indicates he is a commie. If yo

Why don't you link to any of Korten's writings that prove he is a communist?

I don't care if you believe it.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

How does that prove he's not a commie. Certainly, his pseudo Peace Corps experience indicates he is a commie. If yo

Why don't you link to any of Korten's writings that prove he is a communist?

I don't care if you believe it.

To Bripat everyone who won't sell their mother is a damn commie.

 

[bripat9643]

How does that prove he's not a commie. Certainly, his pseudo Peace Corps experience indicates he is a commie. If yo

Why don't you link to any of Korten's writings that prove he is a communist?

I don't care if you believe it.

To Bripat everyone who won't sell their mother is a damn commie.

People who attack capitalism are invariably commies. What's the alternative to capitalism if not communism?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

How does that prove he's not a commie. Certainly, his pseudo Peace Corps experience indicates he is a commie. If yo

Why don't you link to any of Korten's writings that prove he is a communist?

I don't care if you believe it.

To Bripat everyone who won't sell their mother is a damn commie.

People who attack capitalism are invariably commies. What's the alternative to capitalism if not communism?

Socialism, a Mixed Economy, and a dozen other systems, dummy.

And a good capitalist knows that capitalism is a double-edged sword. An infant like you however does not.

 

[bripat9643]

How does that prove he's not a commie. Certainly, his pseudo Peace Corps experience indicates he is a commie. If yo

Why don't you link to any of Korten's writings that prove he is a communist?

I don't care if you believe it.

To Bripat everyone who won't sell their mother is a damn commie.

People who attack capitalism are invariably commies. What's the alternative to capitalism if not communism?

Socialism, a Mixed Economy, and a dozen other systems, dummy.

A "mixed economy" is another way of saying "capitalism." For all practical purposes, "socialism" and "communism are the same exact thing. There are no others.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Why don't you link to any of Korten's writings that prove he is a communist?

I don't care if you believe it.

To Bripat everyone who won't sell their mother is a damn commie.

People who attack capitalism are invariably commies. What's the alternative to capitalism if not communism?

Socialism, a Mixed Economy, and a dozen other systems, dummy.

A "mixed economy" is another way of saying "capitalism." For all practical purposes, "socialism" and "communism are the same exact thing. There are no others.

You're an idiot, a total moron: Economic system - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[bripat9643]

I don't care if you believe it.

To Bripat everyone who won't sell their mother is a damn commie.

People who attack capitalism are invariably commies. What's the alternative to capitalism if not communism?

Socialism, a Mixed Economy, and a dozen other systems, dummy.

A "mixed economy" is another way of saying "capitalism." For all practical purposes, "socialism" and "communism are the same exact thing. There are no others.

You're an idiot, a total moron: Economic system - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

I just know a lot about economics and left-wing propaganda.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

To Bripat everyone who won't sell their mother is a damn commie.

People who attack capitalism are invariably commies. What's the alternative to capitalism if not communism?

Socialism, a Mixed Economy, and a dozen other systems, dummy.

A "mixed economy" is another way of saying "capitalism." For all practical purposes, "socialism" and "communism are the same exact thing. There are no others.

You're an idiot, a total moron: Economic system - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

I just know a lot about economics and left-wing propaganda.

No, you are utterly clueless my little infant, obviously. One of those who screams the Nazis were Socialist, because it's in their name...