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In reply to the discussion: Why Economist Thomas Piketty Has Scared the Pants Off the American Right [View all]Orrex
(63,172 posts)36. It has to do with the the implication that he's a communist.
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xchrom
Apr 2014
OP
Oh, there are plenty of other people who have studied Marx -- and Lenin
Fortinbras Armstrong
Apr 2014
#105
Unfortunately the leaders have enough money that they don't have to handle facts
hootinholler
Apr 2014
#59
That would be the smart thing to do, but unreg-capitalism doesnt have a mechanism for that.
rhett o rick
Apr 2014
#13
It has to do with your hard-core commie plot to introduce impurities into our precious bodily fluids
tclambert
Apr 2014
#39
So when will they do it again? The bankster's extortion worked. The biggist heist in
rhett o rick
Apr 2014
#15
I am thinking that Pres Obama might have been "encouraged" to hire Geithner and Bernanke.
rhett o rick
Apr 2014
#86
There has never been a true Marxist/Communism country, they are/were a tyrannical dictatorship
mrdmk
Apr 2014
#80
The majority of Americans didn't read Milton Friedman or Friedrich Hayek
alcibiades_mystery
Apr 2014
#32
I don't think it is necessary for all Americans to read the book but it is essential that those who
jwirr
Apr 2014
#50
The best demo of this is to try to stan a pyramid upside down. Maybe that can get through to the
kelliekat44
Apr 2014
#20
Yes, Marx was an economist. I should not have lumped all economist into one group.
fasttense
Apr 2014
#51
How do you think we could eventually get "an educated and politically involved populace"?
Dawgs
Apr 2014
#58
Mandatory Voting? Done only in countries where they go through the motions of voting
happyslug
Apr 2014
#100
I wonder if he does that because Marx is so demonized by the cult of A. Smith in the academic econ
Ed Suspicious
Apr 2014
#42
The irony is that the majority of these wing nut flame throwers grew up....
Trust Buster
Apr 2014
#29
Climate change ... or peak oil (already here) ... one or the other ... or a bit of each ...
brett_jv
Apr 2014
#71
Freedom Fries will be on the menu soon, catered by the MSM and Wall Street. nt
adirondacker
Apr 2014
#63
Is not the entire right-wing screed, ideology, mantra about a government of, by, and for the
indepat
Apr 2014
#68
The PROBLEM is the Dems are busy trying to convince the rich that an oligarchy is a "bad" thing...
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2014
#72
It's no wonder that Millenials prefer socialism to capitalism by a slight margin
eridani
Apr 2014
#74