01-03-2014, 07:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-03-2014, 07:48 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Just curios, In what way are republicans ideologically connected to communists/socialists? And where in their analysis of society do they implement (or at least attempt to implement) Marxist thought? I can see those persons who have only a very superficial understanding of Marxism at best as conflating it with LT, but outside of that I don't see this in the contemporary conservative movement at all, but perhaps I'm missing something. They deny Marxism as a legitimate theoretical framework as much as they deny the theory of evolution. I see nothing within Marxism that fits into conservative ideology or their outlook on the world, and moreover Marxism itself isn't an ideology, and is in fact, actually ANTI-ideological. Otherwise, me and conservatives would agree on much, but me and them agree on virtually, NOTHING. Saying their ideology contains elements of communism or Marxism just doesn't compute to me (though I certainly do agree that there is plenty of elements of Fascism within conservatives nowadays, and even Nazism within certain sects or individuals).
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)