Reply #11: LOL [View All]

[dkamin]

I have a coworker who's an ardent Freeper. Not a bad guy, just pretty insane when it comes to politics. One day we were talking and he made the claim that because I had gone to public school I had been brainwashed by Marxist propaganda because public school teachers are all Marxists; he later said that because I supported progressive taxation i supported class warfare and was therefore a Marxist.

I think it was probably a lot easier for him to make that claim on a message board for a bunch of Freepers. I simply asked him if he'd ever read Marx. Because i had, and i definitely was not a Marxist, under any possible definition of the term. I then pointed out to him that if FDR hadn't passed the "Marxist" New Deal, the Marxists would likely have made huge inroads in this country. After agreeing with me, he looked a little perplexed, and then changed the topic.