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I'd be very suprised if anyone here has strong Marxist or Socialist beliefs, but my query stands anyway. Anyone?

I'm a Liberal. Kinda far off, but still in there. But not a Marxist. But truely, one cannot be a Marxist. Because Marx said that in a true communist state there would be no-one in power, but in fact there were people that did have more power than others. (Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, ect.)

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Marx proposed that the only way a socialist state can come about is through violent revolution. As a person who is generally opposed to violence (except in extreme cases), I cannot be a Marxist.

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The funny thing about Socialism is that, on paper it's the perfect gov't... it just turns to crap in practice...

I'm Libertarian...

No government should be based on war so no.

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Anti-war beliefs are common in Socialism; using the common political spectrum, anti-war beliefs place one on the left . . . the far left representing Socialism.

Socialist-lite here.

Almost the same with me. I think that Communism (not too far off from Socialism) is a good idea, but as said before, it just falls to pieces. My guess why is that it's based on the idea that we have a perfect world free of revolutions and coups, while actually every communist state has been overtaken and turned into the exact opposite of Communism--a Dictatorship.

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Evidence of the ol' glassies! Nothing up our sleeves, no magic little Alex! A job for two who are now of job age! The police!

I'm a Socialist but I vote Democrat. Not Socialist-Communist-Marxist, though. So you could say I'm an a la carte Socialist. But I am a Liberal.

I am a Moderate Democrat. I like some thing that are in a Marxist society, I don't agree with the majority of the ideals.

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I'm quite a big Capitalist. I beleive in survival of the fitest, and that the harder you work the more you should be rewarded. But theres debates if capitalism is economic, political, cultural.. etc..

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The problem I have with socialism is that it makes too many assumptions about the ability of a beaurocratic government to handle all the needs of the people. Beaurocracies slow things down and prevent things from getting done: it's their nature.

The problem I have with capitalism is that it promotes greed. I feel that society has an obligation to care for the needy, not to hammer them into the ground. In order to work, capitalism MUST be tempered by compassion, and unfortunately I see far too little of that.

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Far left-socialist here. Realise I'm a new member, but thought I may as well sign up and chime since we seem to be a little under represented . Use the wiki a lot anyways.

As for Marx? Definitely some interesting reading, especially from a historiographical point of veiw. I don't veiw marx as political doctrine. Aside from anything else that kind of inflexibility is against the spirit of marxism. Ummm, happy to discuss whatever anyones interested in anyways.