First off I have to give props to smut for actually doing some research and not prattling on about my future as a on-ramp orange salesman.

Secondly I make shit in Donald G. Smith mothers pussy. lol

Really though, I see why Marx doesn't speak to this puffed up capitolist on the high rung of Americas class system.

He may view Marx as not hitting the nail on the head but he sure did.
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We are a nation of individuals with very little concept of social or economic class.


I'm not an American so I'll ask you. Do you have very little concept of your social and economic class? I think this is a little punch in the gut perpetuated at the wrong person. Is he saying Americans don't view classes because they are maybe all well off or did he mean your too ignorant to realize when and where you get shafted.

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This, I believe, is the reason that Karl Marx has made so little impact on American thought processes. No one is quite sure what the man was talking about, and if they ever found out, they wouldn't care anyway.



I think Karl Marx had a huge impact on the way Americans thought. Consider the cold war, one of the biggest psychological wars in history. All the American fear and hatred had to be focused on the USSR because of its adopted doctrines of Karl Marx.

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I remember reading Karl Marx in college. The assignment was, to understate the case, a tedious experience.



Reading most political works is a tedious experience. Communist or Captolist.

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The word for Karl Marx is irrelevant.



Umm, Okay! This underlines and puts a stamp on the American stereotype of there world is this --><-- big. Outside there imaginary boarders there isn't a billion others around them.

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If one would ask the proverbial man-on-the street American to pinpoint himself on a class scale, he would probably come up with an answer of sorts, but it would be offered with a shrug of the shoulders and a "Who cares?" tone of voice.



I would like to see Donald go to predominately poor minority area and ask this question. Not ask people outside capitol hill.

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Marx was obsessed with the idea of class, but to most Americans this is a vague, if meaningless, concept. We see the world as individuals, a group of divergent entities, each with a unique value and making up a collective body that is less important than its parts.



WTF! Do I even have to show you the hypocrisy in that statement? If I do let me know because I don't even feel its worth the effort. Read it a couple of times, you'll see.

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Our group affiliations are temporal: an afternoon cheering for the home team, a lodge meeting, or a get-together with the property owners' association, but it ends when we step outside and become individuals again. I suppose that a contemporary American could hold his or her income up to some economic scale and find a place in a pre-selected bracket, but it really doesn't mean much to anyone. Certainly there is no class struggle, and I don't think that I know anyone who could define the term, or who cares enough to find out.



Umm again, this statement shows his stature in the class system. I don't know many people that go to a lodge meeting unless they have a lot of money for membership and a good deal of free time on there hands. Why didn't he bring out the example of the working man? Farmer, retailer and assembly line worker to name a few?

To put it simply this man embodies the statement opinions are like assholes everyone's got one. This man is in his ivory tower and I would hardly think his opinion embodies the working or poor class American.