Marxism For Our Times; The progressive agenda does not help the "have nots."

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Marx's memorial in Moscow. Creative commons

. . . "Younger and Portney observe similar bahavior elsewhere, and illuminate this in part by taking the Communist Manifesto and replacing the word "communism" with activism and "bourgeois" and "proletarian" with "haves" and "have nots," which generates a surprisingly trenchant message." . . .

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Ethan Epstein sagely pointed out in these pages that Hillary Clinton's opining that the fact that the GDP in the states where she won in the 2016 election amounted to fully two-thirds of the country's total is somehow important would, in fact, be so only if we were to implicitly weight the importance of citizens by their income, a grotesque perspective but one that increasingly seems to comport with a progressive upper-class perspective that our net worth is somehow representative of someone’s individual worth.

"Achieving economic equality—or even something tantamount to an equality of opportunity—may represent the progressive cri de coeur, but many liberals seem fine with concomitantly pursuing various other social goals that come at the expense of the great unwashed and undermine that very goal."

Ike Brannon is a nonresident fellow at the Cato Institute.