Whom do you imagine would be more pleasing in the eyes of a merciful God: Karl Marx or the United States?
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DAR: Did Marx have hundreds of thousands of people killed?\n\nI think Marx would be more pleasing.
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Ronald Reagan (Modern Times) Saving the US from Communism and Liberalism\n\nAbraham Lincoln - Preserving the Union
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JFK. YOu should hear his inpirring speeches about the US wanting to reach the moon, to get ahead of USSR in Space reseach and Rocket Science.
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I would argue that it wasn't.  But it certainly was more theoretical.  Marx version never had to be tested in the trenches of reality.  Whenever communism has been lived out (Leninism, Maoism, etc), it has always led to disaster: either mass poverty or mass violence, or a combination of both.  Marx' approach has never had to be tested, since one can always claim that it was the fault of lenin or Stalin or Mao or whoever that it didn't work.  The reality is that it never really works.
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I would choose either Franklin Roosevelt or John Kennedy to try to deal with today's problems, particularly Iraq. Both were very bright. Both were wide ranging and imaginative in the consideration of problems, without some limitations we see today. Both knew human behavior very well, of their own advisers as well as of foreign powers and enemies. Both were not afraid of doing something drastic if necessary and were articulate enough to explain why to the American people. Both loved their country and were devoted to it at any cost to themselves. Both knew how to inspire and lead the American people and the world.\n\nYou say they had some peccadillo's? Don't we all.
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I assume you are speaking of the United States when you say "America".  If so, my answer is NO.  The U.S. has always been a capitalist government.  Since it has been capitalist from the beginning, the ethics and morals of capitalism have always been present.  The ethics and morals of capitalism are what shaped the country in the first place so they cannot be viewed as an outside force.  What has corrupted the country is the movement away from being a Christian society.  Capitalism MUST be balanced by a concern for the well being of others.  The capitalism of today is the same capitalism practiced by our forefathers, but many of today's capitalist lack any moral compass.  They are driven only by a selfish desire for profit for themselves.  They are not even concerned for their own company, just what they can take out of it.  That my friend is NOT Capitalism, that is GREED.  Many people confuse the two, but they are NOT the same.  Capitalism is a grand dream of building, greed is a sick desire to tear down for one's own gain.  Children are not taught morals or ethics in our public schools anymore.  They have been outlawed from the classroom.  The result is a generation that worships greed.  Look at the lessons taught by the top television programs like The Apprentice and Survivor.  Lie, cheat, steal and win.  Win at all cost.  Betray your friends, make false alliances, be sneaky and get the gold.  That philosophy is greed and it destroys all who buy into it.  In the final analysis what is corrupting our country is that we have elevated self gratification above all other concerns.
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Who cares about Marx, except as an example of what not to be !!
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Capitalism as a religion, you should read Mathew. It was clearly stated who those people are that oppose the rise of Christianity, they had him put up on the cross.
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In a nutshell, Communism, at least as interpreted by the Bolsheviks, would lead inevitably to world domination.  Only after the world was under one governemnt could the utopia exist where everything got distributed equally and every one sang and danced all day, etc.  The United States, however, was and still is a sovreign nation not part of comintern (the Soviet term for the allied Communist states falling under the Warsaw Pact; the rest of the world referred to this as the Second World, however).  As such, the United States and its allies were seen as prime targets for Soviet spying and espionage with the vision in mind of subverting sovreign nations and republics the world over so that atheistic communism would reign.  Sen. Joseph McCarthy and many of his colleagues at the time fought tirelessly to expose Soviet agents working in sensitive governemnt positions, but many communist sympathizers slandered the good Senator and his efforts and so his name is continually defamed to this day.  A lot of thanks to a man who only tried to keep America alive...
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Id say they where probly both very influentual (and still are) in their own ways. They influenced two different musuc era's. In my opinion john Lennon projected peace and harmony and Kurt Cobain projected aggressiveness and individuality. And since i believe in the peace to all thying i'd like to say that Lennon gets my vote.
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Yep........ Groucho Marx
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Fair trade capitalist.  Extreme right, I hate any form of marxism.  I believe a man should be judge by who he is not his hide.  I believe that the solution for the problems of this world is found in the bible.  Public education is a waste of money, due to the literacy rate and no basic understanding of economics.\n\nHaving this as a basis, the world will end one day, not worried about it, because of the laws of nature, namely entropy.  The hatred for Israel and Christianity will continue to grow. \n\nNothing will change we have always had storms and always will.  We will always have wars, because man is basically selfish
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Right Here Waiting by Richard Marx
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The FDR revolution.  Introduced Marxism into American Government. via welfare, graduated tax, confiscation of private gold reserves
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CAPITALISM!\n\n\nSeriously... How could you live in country that has \n"In god we trust" on its MONEY??????
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Maybe Socialism is better, but capitalism is more human unfortunately.\n\nsocialism is a great idea, but it has to be everywhere for it to work because if there is a capitalist nation next door then it begins dragging the socialist down.\n\nsorry I had to be practical
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Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883, London) was an immensely influential German philosopher, political economist, and socialist revolutionary. While Marx addressed a wide range of issues, he is most famous for his analysis of history in terms of class struggles, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."\n\nAlong with Engels, Marx took part in the political and philosophical struggle of his times, writing the Communist Manifesto a year before the Revolutions of 1848. Marx had broke with his university environment, German Idealism and the Young Hegelians, and took part in the debates of the European workers' movement, in particular in relation with the First International founded in 1864. He published the first tome of Das Kapital in 1867, a few years before the 1871 Paris Commune. The influence of his ideas, already popular during his life, was given added impetus by the victory of the Russian Bolsheviks in the 1917 October Revolution, and there are few parts of the world which were not significantly touched by Marxian ideas in the course of the twentieth century. The relation of Marx's own thought to the popular "Marxist" interpretations of it during this period is a point of controversy; he himself once said that "the only thing [he] knew was that he wasn't Marxist". While Marx's ideas have declined somewhat in popularity, particularly with the decline of Marxism in Russia, they are still very influential today, both in academic circles, and in political practice, and Marxism continues to be the official ideology of some Communist states and political movements.\n\nhere is more about him @ wikipedia\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx