http://www.capitalistdigest.com/are-we-there-yet-lets-check-marx-and-engels-list-996/ A Resource for the Advocacy of Capitalism – News, Opinion, and Essays on Economics and Government Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:55:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.capitalistdigest.com/are-we-there-yet-lets-check-marx-and-engels-list-996/comment-page-1/#comment-90 admin Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:19:40 +0000 http://www.capitalistdigest.com/?p=996#comment-90 So many assumptions in your first comment - it would help to look a little closer at just what "the Capitalist Digest" is. First, the article that seems to have initiated all this ire was in fact written by Robert Higgs, as was indicated in the post. Thus "making up our own minds" is a bit irrelevant, as the Capitalist Digest was not expressing its personal opinion on the matter, simply publishing an excerpt from the Independent Institute. You seem to be coming to some dire conclusions about this site, but you do not cite any information to support your hyperbolic claims. I personally could care less whose names are *in* the Communist Manifesto... ;-) You haven't even attempted to deduce just what position is being offered in this article or by this site (other than a knee-jerk assumption that you can already read our minds) - something that would be quite helpful if you are sincere in your opposition to the material contained herein. So many assumptions in your first comment – it would help to look a little closer at just what “the Capitalist Digest” is. First, the article that seems to have initiated all this ire was in fact written by Robert Higgs, as was indicated in the post. Thus “making up our own minds” is a bit irrelevant, as the Capitalist Digest was not expressing its personal opinion on the matter, simply publishing an excerpt from the Independent Institute. You seem to be coming to some dire conclusions about this site, but you do not cite any information to support your hyperbolic claims. I personally could care less whose names are *in* the Communist Manifesto… You haven’t even attempted to deduce just what position is being offered in this article or by this site (other than a knee-jerk assumption that you can already read our minds) – something that would be quite helpful if you are sincere in your opposition to the material contained herein.

]]> http://www.capitalistdigest.com/are-we-there-yet-lets-check-marx-and-engels-list-996/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Millard Fillmore's Bathtub Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:21:18 +0000 http://www.capitalistdigest.com/?p=996#comment-69 [...] The Capitalist Digest, which misappropriates Jefferson's warning to the clergy (famousl..., declaring that the federal government's holding lands in trust was one of the things Marx and Engels wished to see (November 10, not a week after the election).  Had Marx and Engels actually meant that wise land stewardship was something to be striven for, that public lands should be used to the public good, they would have been in the bosom of capitalism when they did so (I suspect they were not in favor of poor stewardship.) The Capitalist Digest would urge burning Milton Friedman and Jesus Christ if their names had appeared in the Communist Manifesto.  This is not a bunch that works on principles and reason.  Under U.S. law, federal land management is not communist at all with small exceptions made to support American cattlemen, sheep ranchers and mineral and oil extractors, and I doubt that the Capitalist Digest really intended to indict American oil producers, miners and livestock operations.  The Capitalist Digest blames their insanity on Robert Higgs at the Independent Institute, as if The Capitalist Digest can't make up their own minds. [...] [...] The Capitalist Digest, which misappropriates Jefferson’s warning to the clergy (famousl…, declaring that the federal government’s holding lands in trust was one of the things Marx and Engels wished to see (November 10, not a week after the election).  Had Marx and Engels actually meant that wise land stewardship was something to be striven for, that public lands should be used to the public good, they would have been in the bosom of capitalism when they did so (I suspect they were not in favor of poor stewardship.) The Capitalist Digest would urge burning Milton Friedman and Jesus Christ if their names had appeared in the Communist Manifesto.  This is not a bunch that works on principles and reason.  Under U.S. law, federal land management is not communist at all with small exceptions made to support American cattlemen, sheep ranchers and mineral and oil extractors, and I doubt that the Capitalist Digest really intended to indict American oil producers, miners and livestock operations.  The Capitalist Digest blames their insanity on Robert Higgs at the Independent Institute, as if The Capitalist Digest can’t make up their own minds. [...]

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