P.S.: For a poverty stricken educator and author who lived mostly off his wife's former wealth and the support of capitalist benefactors, Marx was apparently not a bad Chess player.

This was a great game played by Marx. He co-ordinates all his pieces perfectly.

Note the extreme activity of black's queen side pieces!

Thanks for the re-education!

P.S.: My concern as a U.S. citizen is that we don't elect politicians who promise us greater government benefits without new taxes, but instead deliver bigger more oppresssive government, overly expensive government services (compared to the cost in private free markets) and higher taxes. Indeed, Marx suggested that in the U.S. that communism might gradually overthrow capitalism by peaceful means (i.e. at the ballot box).

<My concern as a U.S. citizen is that we don't elect politicians who promise us greater government benefits without new taxes, but instead deliver bigger more oppresssive government, overly expensive government services (compared to the cost in private free markets) and higher taxes. Indeed, Marx suggested that in the U.S. that communism might gradually overthrow capitalism by peaceful means (i.e. at the ballot box).> I also have that concern. Heck, if you read the Communist Manifesto and see the 10 planks of Marxism in it, we've already adopted at least 3 of them in full, and are moving towards (or have chosen compromise positions on) several others. Remember Norman Thomas: "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."

The robber barons are now preying on the American middle class....It seems clear to me that within our lifetimes, the vast majority of Americans will be sucked dry and in a state of indentured servitude

<The robber barons are now preying on the American middle class....It seems clear to me that within our lifetimes, the vast majority of Americans will be sucked dry and in a state of indentured servitude> Who are these robber barons you speak of? And your predictions are a sad, pathetic echo of what Marx claimed would happen. Guess what? He was wrong, and so are you.

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

The problem with communism is that while it's an enticing theory, it simply can't be implemented and maintained without government force and coercion. As such, I would argue that it's inherently oppressive.

P.S.: <Offtherook>, good luck at the University of Miami Medical School. I wish you all the best there. Maybe you'll get a chance to slip in a Macro-economics class to fill some of your non-medical course requirements.

Where Friedman messed up biggest was probably his hypocrisy in analysis of Chile. Because some of his buddies were advisors to Pinochet, he ignored Chilean totalitarianism. But from what you said about different combinations of economic and government systems, it seems the end conclusion is: communism fails, capitalism succeeds, irrespective of the governmental system in place.

Back to the game: I'm pretty sure this isn't double Muzio. I thought the double Muzio included 8.Bf7 to sac the second minor piece. 8 d3 looks a bit strange to me. Somehow my KG games never turn out this way, though.

And of course, when anyone tries to regulate them and bring them in line with the common good, people like you cry "Socialism!"

You still haven't named any robber barons. And what regulations will bring them in line with the "common good?" For that matter, who's going to decide what the common good is? The common good is best served through capitalism. Socialism (I mean real socialism, not welfare statism) fails, and most regulation just degenerates into corrupt and inefficient bureaucracy that doesn't even do what it was set up to accomplish.

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