Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

To: walford

I disagree.

Not all Leftism is based on Marxism. Admittedly, varieties of Marxism are dominant, but it isn’t the sole foundation.


6 posted on 09/01/2014 12:07:15 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins most of the battles. Reality wins ALL the wars.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Sherman Logan

Marxism has its origins also, so there can be forms of Leftism from a common ancestor - Hegel being one of them, Kant being another. Leftist academics who studied Marx digested it and then passed it on to their students as progressivism.

Marx consolidated what later became what the Left holds dear.

Many Leftists, for example, may not have reasoned it out, but give evidence in their thought that they believe in the Labor Theory of Value. That holds that rather than supply-and-demand, the value of a product is based upon how much labor was put into it. So a chair that took 4 hours to build is worth twice as much as one that took 2 hours — even if they are exactly the same in every way. Absurd, I know, but it guides many Leftist policies.


8 posted on 09/01/2014 12:24:57 PM PDT by walford (https://www.facebook.com/wralford [feel free to friend me] @wralford on Twitter)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Sherman Logan
Not all Leftism is based on Marxism. Admittedly, varieties of Marxism are dominant, but it isn’t the sole foundation.

exactly, the 3 main worldviews of libtardism are marxism, secular humanism, and postmodernism.All 3 dispise Christianity.

12 posted on 09/01/2014 1:15:04 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson