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Adam Smith misread



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A Murphy (Letters, 9 May) says of Adam Smith: "Read him carefully and you may find a precursor of Karl Marx."
Where does Smith advocate dictatorship of the proletariat and the placing of the means of production under full state control to allegedly benefit "the workers"?

BRUCE CRICHTON

Victoria Road

Falkirk, Stirlingshire





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  • Last Updated: 11 May 2008 7:36 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Itchy,

12/05/2008 06:45:56
Wonder if Guthrie will post here? Bruce Crichton is his bete noir.

Wonder if some of the useful idiots who support socialism will post here?
2

Guthrie,

Edinburgh 12/05/2008 17:36:43
Actually, means of production under the workers control, but that aside, Bruce has a point this time.
3

Itchy,

Lochgelly 12/05/2008 20:35:50
Not the workers, Guthrie, but the state.
4

Itchy,

12/05/2008 20:39:43
That was Marx's great con, to popularize the idea that Socialism benefits 'the workers'.

Marxism is simply rationalized hatred. That's why it failed and produced genocide.

 

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