[Bilge_Rat]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I said it three times, and already in the very first post I ever made about a wekk ago or so: Hoppe is best in analysing and doing a diagnosis. The symptoms and their causes as he can link them with empirical data on development of taxes, national wealth distribution, demography, social statistics and especially financial budgets, is compelling. The causal links he identifies he sees as causal relations for very good reason which he can explain absolutely logical and realistic. It makes frighteningly much sense. I agree with you that the alternatively he offers, is kind of an idealistic utopia. It hints at a direction where the voyage should go, but whether it will go there for sure, I have very strong doubts. But his ideas for an altenrative, I admit that, make more sense than what I ever was able to imagine - I failed in leaving the old conceptions behind, and that is why my own ideas probably would have been guaranteed to fail. In absenc eof any better offer, I tend to agree with Hoppe'S alternative, therefore.

I don't disagree with you on that point. Even though I am not a marxist myself, I often find myself using Marx's theories to analyse world events. Some of his theories are still useful to try to figure out what is really going on.