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It is funny how you people make assumptions about who or what I am. It gives you a sense of security when you try to ridicle me and my ideas. You fit me into some liberal stereo-type that you are familar with from your own lives. This makes you feel stronger - as though you are fighting a tangable enemy.



So...you called yourself a socialist. That generally encompasses a pretty specific set of assumptions and thought processes. Unless you're trying to pull some sort of Derridean Jedi-mind-trick and say that you're actually a capitalist. Since Marx had nothing to do with the 20th century Continental philosophers, you're probably not allowed to take that way out.

I saw plenty of you experimentals in college. You'd get a hold of your first political science book and your mind-boner steers you directly to Marx. The same cultural brainfart led Germans to follow Hitler. Then after a year or two you become very jaded and sit in the student union with your army green coat (hopefully in the same style as Che Guevara), beret and black boots, your pixel tan a stunning pale white, because only a capitalist heathen would take advantage of someone else's solar power. You smoke your capitalist-produced cigarettes, and maybe share a capitalist-brewed beer with one of your fellow losers.

After graduating, you realize your 400 GRE score won't advance your intellectual career any further so you finally give up the Marx ghost and turn to its closest capitalist equivalent---EMO.

The most left-winged, anti-capitalist, Birkenstock-wearing femi-socialst lesbian I knew in college. Know what happened? She's a trademark lawyer in Chicago, married to a CBOT trader and has 3 kids.

I've set up a help line for people like you, look around a bit a find the number. Hell, you might even run into a picture of a capitalist-whore who arouses you. Most of us here do.