[Info-vax] Quite ON-topic actually

[Neil Rieck]

On Jan 30, 2:34 am, "Richard Maher" <maher... at hotspamnotmail.com>
wrote:
> A Karl Marx quote I stimbled across at: -http://business.smh.com.au/business/they-should-have-listened-to-marx...
> "The credit system, which has its focus in the so-called national banks and
> the big-money lenders and usurers surrounding them, constitutes enormous
> centralisation, and gives this class of parasites the fabulous power, not
> only to periodically despoil industrial capitalists, but also to interfere
> in actual production in a most dangerous manner - and this gang knows
> nothing about production and has nothing to do with it,'' Marx's words
> published 11 years after his death said.
>
> Regards Richard Maher
>
> Another OT (yet still interesting) Marx quote from the same smutt-rag:
>
> To close on a lighter note then, here is a quote from Karl Marx in 1867:
>
> "Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more
> expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and
> more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable.
>
> The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be
> nationalized and the State will have to take the road which will
> eventually lead to communism."
>
> Now, I'm not a reader of Marx (unless it's broken up into tiny little junks
> for the great unwashed :-) and lean to the right which is why I'm
> particularly disgusted with what's going on in The States and here. And yes
> I'm decreasing the COV signal-to-noise ratio with the second bit, but you
> have to say the first quote is right on the money for VMS would you not?

Rather than Karl Marx, you should watch "Duck Soup" by the Marx Bros.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedonia

As a reminder, this movie involves dirt-bag CEOs, government bailouts,
and all the other monkey business going on in the world today even
though the movie came out in 1933.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/