Mauro Lacy wrote:
> As I said before, the concept of "class struggle", and the use that is > made of it, does not promote an harmonious way to resolve conflicts. > History also supports this, and I think that it is one of the main > reasons Marxism is discredited today. Hi All, The main reason that Marxism is discredited is laid out in "Darkness at Noon". Certainly it was not Kondratieff's discovery that capitalism was not on a one-way path to destruction, for which Stalin sentenced him to Siberia. Russian thinking is no more objective than our own. While it is impossible to overestimate American stupidity and cupidity, it is also a mistake to ignore American genius. Some may argue that it could never be repeated; but the creation of our current American constitution by men schooled in government, especially the classics, and motivated by a desire for individual freedom, is a marvel of history. Our founding fathers well understood human evil, and created a system of horizontal and vertical checks and balances so that the thieves could blow the whistle on each other. Moreover, our founding fathers highly valued personal freedom, and were motivated by a burning opposition (Masonic) to King and Pope. These libertarian traditions are still alive and pose a formidable challenge to the arrogance of the Middle Kingdom. Jack Smith
