On May 4, 8:19 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MooseFET wrote: > > On May 4, 12:32 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [....] > > >>The Marxist contribution to western thought is that it put everything in > >>terms of labor and thus allowed us to quantify the human component of > >>economies. > > > No the great insight by Marx was in the selling of ducks. "Anybody > > want to buy a duct" has done more to advance economic thinking than > > the works of most economists. > > > Economists have a vested interest in preventing people from > > understanding economics. They are well paid and know that they > > wouldn't be for long if people really understood what was going on. > > You must be an economist because you provide absolutely no > interpretation of what the hell you were saying in ghe first paragraph > (as if you actually know what you were trying to say). Duct or duck, > first of all. Second of all--make a point.
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