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Check it: in short, no. I don't "hate the hell out of" Marx or government authority. I agree with some of Marx's ideas about economics (cycles, alienation of labor, dialectical materialism, etc). His ideas weren't all that bad -- they were just books. But people like Lenin & Stalin took them and used them as a vehicle to fulfill their own megalomania. Their vehicle of ideas could have been anything, as long as it promised the masses a better and brighter future. Why, it could have even been Islam, for all they cared. But that's a discussion for another day.
As for government authority, i love my rights. But i'm not a libertarian. What i don't appreciate is warrantles wiretapping, Guantanamo Bay, the treatment of Jose Padilla, all the shit that Bush is doing that is encroaching on our rights so seriously. I didn't leave the USSR just to see it recreated here, even if only in part.
