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Originally Posted by DRS112
I didn't edit anything in your post other than the part where the quotes got screwed up.(I promise) 
You talking about two world wars? That were fought because of the barriers to trade that were errected....which justified the creation of the Bretton Woods agreement, the World bank and IMF to facilitate trade liberalization to avoid any similar wars in the future? |
Adam Smith and Karl Marx (just to make it simple) had opposing ideas long before 2 world wars.
I was speaking to the basic idea that free markets alone cannot and do not govern and equalize societies...that even Adam Smith believed in some government intervention.
My whole point is that the tenants of socialism and capitalism will have to succeed together, to keep the middle class the relative ruling class.
Ideas that America was based on...
we are in the beginning of a grand experiment, don't you think we are wise to realize this?