12-10-2007
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Town Council Member
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Member Since: Dec 2007
Location: Arizona
Posts: 122
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Re: What is wrong with Ron Paul?
Karl Marx delivered this address before the Democratic Association of Brusels, 9 January, 1848
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... Besides this, the protective system helps to develop free trade competition within a country. Hence we see that in countries where the bourgeoisie is beginning to make itself felt as a class, in Germany for example, it makes great efforts to obtain protective duties. They serve the bourgeoisie as weapons against feudalism and absolute government, as a means for the concentration of its own powers and for the realization of free trade within the same country.
But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
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Karl Marx / On the Question of Free Trade
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