Nope, not at all (ROTFMOL heads aside). I.e., Marx was, simply put, fundamentally wrong. I cannot help but notice how my central points were just completely avoided rather than responded to. The problem, my friend, is that you live in a mind-space that is either-or. The world, of course, does not operate such. Oh, as exemplars? How about every developed economy in the world? Mixed economy Just a thought.
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