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We were Marxists before Marx was born.

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But you repeat yourself.*

*Or, you are doomed to.

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I'm having a little trouble visualizing a non-local fiefdom. Something like a big multinational? Or are we talking quantum-mechanical spooky fiefing at a distance?

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A Hot Red Lincoln.

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So, it would seem that Lincoln got advance proofs of <i>Das Kapital</i>, which Marx published after Lincoln was killed. It would be great to see Abe's comments . . . I wonder if Marx made edits accordingly?

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No. You <i>can</i> feel it.

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skipping around, ha, if only. they want to live the history books backwards.

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jeeebus! the commie marxist dogwhistle shit is sooooooooooooooooooooo 1981. Berlin Wall is gone, dude. The only pplz who are Red Scared are already undead in their Hoover-rounds. Maybe they will last to the midterms to vote? still not gonna last til 2016.

Dear GOP, get a new base. this one's sell by date passed 3 decades ago.

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“Post-Civil War, you’ve got the socialist goals, the communist platform, the Manifesto platform, I think there are ten elements to the platform, one by one they come about in our country,” Swanson added. “And first was the public schools.”

What the fuck does this even mean? It sounds like an outtake from a Caribou Boo speech.

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<i>“They want all of the children to think alike, and what tyrant doesn’t want all of his subjects to think alike?”</i>

So God, Allah, Jeebus, etc. -- they're all tyrants?

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Who knew the whole "Be excellent to each other" was socialist indoctrination?

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At this rate the only President the conservatives will still say was one of their's will be Reagan. They've pretty much disowned everyone else at one time or another.

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Slavery is freedom. Emancipation is communism.

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Yes. But that happened <a href="http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/yglesias\/2010\/05\/21\/197312\/goldwater-and-civil-rights\/" target="_blank">a long time ago</a>.

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Well, I for one welcome our <strike>new</strike> old Marxist-Lincolnist overlords.

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1984? More like 1864, amirite?

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