[1rudeboy]

Marx claimed he was in favor of free trade because it would antagonize the working classes into overthrowing the bourgeoise. How do you reconcile the above with a comment such as claiming free trade is destroying the middle class, or other such garbage?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Alan Shugart, co-founder of Seagate was a full blown communist (he admitted so publicly quite a few times) despite his use of and success with THE APPEARENCE (thanks to Hunterite for the clarification) of capitalism. Seagate was a company based near the communist enclave of Santa Cruz, California.

Shugart is dead now. His smarmy little antics of running Earnest, his dog, for Congress in Monterey was at best a pathetic prank. He lived in Pebble Beach and the local communist newspapers made a lot of hay over it to further fill their pages with ancillary drivel.

He liked to hire a lot of foreigners who would work cheap, extolled the virtues of government providing everything instead of reaching into his own pocket to pay for it.

Registering his dog to vote in Monterey County should have landed him in the jail for fraud. He was a pile of dung...

[Hunterite]

“Marx claimed he was in favor of free trade because it would antagonize the working classes into overthrowing the bourgeoise. How do you reconcile the above with a comment such as claiming free trade is destroying the middle class, or other such garbage?”

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Marx was in favor of free-trade because he was personally profiting from free-trade.