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Re:Economic Inequality by graeme on Saturday January 02, 2016 @05:31PM (#10828311)
I haven't read through the links you cited, just the excerpt. A lot of non-communists cite Marx. My economics professors in University certainly did, including one who advocated eliminating corporate taxes.
Re:Economic Inequality by chroma on Saturday January 02, 2016 @05:43PM (#10828356)
Out of everything I said, I'm surprised this is the thing that's contested. Just scroll through his Twitter feed. Here are a few recent ones:

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/682787891936948224

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/682788969843658752

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/682787609446330368

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/682787371235016705

He retweeted this: https://twitter.com/kantrn/status/683385220167368704

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/682759650362658816

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/682759288012554240

Heck, his Twitter profile pic is a communist logo. His Twitter bio says, "Every loss for a worker is loss for all of us and every gain for a part of the working class is a victory for all." That's a quote from the Industrial Workers of the World[1].

I don't know how much more communist one can get.

1. http://www.iww.org/content/iww-greece-announcement-regarding...

Re:Economic Inequality by steveklabnik on Saturday January 02, 2016 @06:24PM (#10828541)
Yeah so the IWW is an anarchist organization, not a communist one. Or at least, not a Marxist one. Soooooooooo
Re:Economic Inequality by graeme on Saturday January 02, 2016 @05:48PM (#10828378)
Right, that looks pretty clear then. I guess I meant to say that citing his summarizing of Marx is a pretty poor way to suggest someone is a communist, if you can link to something that literally says "I am a communist". Plenty of non-communists cite Marx.
Re:Economic Inequality by steveklabnik on Saturday January 02, 2016 @06:22PM (#10828528)
This is 100% accurate. My ultimate allegiance is to Deleuze, but that's only relevant to a VERY small niche of people. Marx is much more well-known.

Also, I care more about left unity than arguing over the exact kind of leftist I or others are.