re: #653 Obdicut

Which, I’d point out, does not make saying that Marx would condemn it ‘not technically true’. There is no actual technical sense in which that could be true or not.

Yeah, maybe a better way of classifying that initial statement about Marx condemning progressive taxation would be nonsensical.

And that brief objection does not in the least bit explain your point well enough.

That brief objection was not all that was written on that itt.

And why are you objecting to the word being translated as ‘heavy’, anyway?

I didn’t.

I don’t mind at all pointing out the flaw; it’s perfectly true that Marx saw capitalism as stage to be worked through, just as he did feudalism.

You certainly seemed to mind quite a bit ever since I did point it out.

However, that doesn’t mean the didn’t also condemn capitalism. He did. He also condemned feudalism. There is only one political and economic system that he didn’t condemn, and that was communism.

Yes, we are in agreement (except, perhaps, about communism being an economical system). Communism, however, was a theoretical aim yet to achieve (AFAIK he always objected it being called an “ideal”), and among the practical measures pursuant to it he identified progressive taxation. And we agree that that does not make progressive taxation uniquely or essentially marxist.