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  • February 8, 2009 at 3:47 PM #15006
    urbanrealtor
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    “Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable.
    The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead
    to communism.”

    Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867

    Again, just curious to hear the verbal frenzy that follows. Game on.

    February 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM #342966
    Allan from Fallbrook
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    Dan: Amazingly prescient quote, isn’t it? Interesting use of the word “technology” in a quote dated 1867. What sort of “technology” or “technologies” do you suppose Marx was referring to? Toaster ovens? BMW 5 Series autos? Laptops? You just don’t get the sense that the word “technology” is antediluvian when it comes to our favorite 19th century German econo-revolutionary.

    I’d also be curious to see the cite specifying the page and paragraph where this quote is found in Das Kapital.

    “Workers of the World Unite!”

    February 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM #343526
    Allan from Fallbrook
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    Dan: Amazingly prescient quote, isn’t it? Interesting use of the word “technology” in a quote dated 1867. What sort of “technology” or “technologies” do you suppose Marx was referring to? Toaster ovens? BMW 5 Series autos? Laptops? You just don’t get the sense that the word “technology” is antediluvian when it comes to our favorite 19th century German econo-revolutionary.

    I’d also be curious to see the cite specifying the page and paragraph where this quote is found in Das Kapital.

    “Workers of the World Unite!”

    February 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM #343430
    Allan from Fallbrook
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    Dan: Amazingly prescient quote, isn’t it? Interesting use of the word “technology” in a quote dated 1867. What sort of “technology” or “technologies” do you suppose Marx was referring to? Toaster ovens? BMW 5 Series autos? Laptops? You just don’t get the sense that the word “technology” is antediluvian when it comes to our favorite 19th century German econo-revolutionary.

    I’d also be curious to see the cite specifying the page and paragraph where this quote is found in Das Kapital.

    “Workers of the World Unite!”

    February 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM #343402
    Allan from Fallbrook
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    Dan: Amazingly prescient quote, isn’t it? Interesting use of the word “technology” in a quote dated 1867. What sort of “technology” or “technologies” do you suppose Marx was referring to? Toaster ovens? BMW 5 Series autos? Laptops? You just don’t get the sense that the word “technology” is antediluvian when it comes to our favorite 19th century German econo-revolutionary.

    I’d also be curious to see the cite specifying the page and paragraph where this quote is found in Das Kapital.

    “Workers of the World Unite!”

    February 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM #343293
    Allan from Fallbrook
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    Dan: Amazingly prescient quote, isn’t it? Interesting use of the word “technology” in a quote dated 1867. What sort of “technology” or “technologies” do you suppose Marx was referring to? Toaster ovens? BMW 5 Series autos? Laptops? You just don’t get the sense that the word “technology” is antediluvian when it comes to our favorite 19th century German econo-revolutionary.

    I’d also be curious to see the cite specifying the page and paragraph where this quote is found in Das Kapital.

    “Workers of the World Unite!”

    February 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM #343435
    Allan from Fallbrook
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    Dan: Here is link to The Atlantic article by Megan McArdle identifying quote as a hoax (not Marx). Enjoy.

    http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/01/faux_marx.php

    February 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM #343407
    Allan from Fallbrook
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    Dan: Here is link to The Atlantic article by Megan McArdle identifying quote as a hoax (not Marx). Enjoy.

    http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/01/faux_marx.php

    February 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM #343298
    Allan from Fallbrook
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    Dan: Here is link to The Atlantic article by Megan McArdle identifying quote as a hoax (not Marx). Enjoy.

    http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/01/faux_marx.php

    February 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM #342971
    Allan from Fallbrook
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    Dan: Here is link to The Atlantic article by Megan McArdle identifying quote as a hoax (not Marx). Enjoy.

    http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/01/faux_marx.php

    February 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM #343531
    Allan from Fallbrook
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    Dan: Here is link to The Atlantic article by Megan McArdle identifying quote as a hoax (not Marx). Enjoy.

    http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/01/faux_marx.php

    February 8, 2009 at 5:03 PM #343440
    urbanrealtor
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    Cool.

    Even better.

    Not only Marx but fake Marx.

    Excellent.

    Now I need a fake Ayn Rand quote to balance it out.

    Except most of the real stuff qualifies too…

    Hmmm…

    Perhaps some fake trotsky?

    Help me here.

    February 8, 2009 at 5:03 PM #342975
    urbanrealtor
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    Cool.

    Even better.

    Not only Marx but fake Marx.

    Excellent.

    Now I need a fake Ayn Rand quote to balance it out.

    Except most of the real stuff qualifies too…

    Hmmm…

    Perhaps some fake trotsky?

    Help me here.

    February 8, 2009 at 5:03 PM #343412
    urbanrealtor
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    Cool.

    Even better.

    Not only Marx but fake Marx.

    Excellent.

    Now I need a fake Ayn Rand quote to balance it out.

    Except most of the real stuff qualifies too…

    Hmmm…

    Perhaps some fake trotsky?

    Help me here.

    February 8, 2009 at 5:03 PM #343303
    urbanrealtor
    Participant

    Cool.

    Even better.

    Not only Marx but fake Marx.

    Excellent.

    Now I need a fake Ayn Rand quote to balance it out.

    Except most of the real stuff qualifies too…

    Hmmm…

    Perhaps some fake trotsky?

    Help me here.

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