Last week, after recording our most serious political discussion yet for Mosquito Circus (Now online!) Alex and I got to talking about Marxism. The general conclusion I came to was that Marx had good ideas, and wouldn't have approved of Communism. Given that he was thinking as philosopher more than a revolutionary he wasn't thinking in practicals necessarily. This all came out of a talk about MArx and the founding fathers, and how well balanced and practical a revolution they managed to put on. Anywho, Digby says "He diagnosed the illness, it was his prescription that wasn't so hot."

I'd say that's about right.

And, just to spur discussion, I'd like to provide this little theory with regards to socialism vs. market love ...

Extreme Market bias=Conservatives
Moderation=Liberals
Extreme Socialist bias=Marx/Socialists

Or, in lovely sentence form, I think that modern Conservatives/the GOP is just as extreme, wrong headed, and ignorant about human nature, in its trust of the free market economy to somehow right social wrongs and make the world go round as Marx was in his trust of Socialism.

One of the many reasons Asa is a Liberal.