[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.

[1rudeboy]

So all his class-warfare rhetoric was a sham? What about yours?

[1rudeboy]

I'm pinging some people who actually know their economic history: did Marx personally profit from free trade? What definition of free trade are we using now, if that's the case?

Seriously, I've never heard that angle before . . . and I thought I've heard them all.

[Thumper1960]

That Marx, et all, are/were hypocrites is well known. He didn’t enjoy spending time with the “masses” or the “proletariat”. They were a means to an end: Political, social and economic power for he and his kind. Much like the modern “Progressives” and “Liberals” of today.