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Saturday, March 26, 2016

A Communist Manifesto slant on Trump, Cruz " tabloid scandal "

  Almost any " democratic socialist " is above commenting on any political candidate's sex life or sexual proclivities or sexual orientation- unless there is police evidence of sexual abuse , of non-consent .
   Most democratic socialists would prefer to decriminalize prostitution.
But this tabloid scandal involving the private lives of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump does remind me of a humorous passage from Marx's  Communist Manifesto :

   [ " Our bourgeois, not content with having wives and daughters of their
proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take
the greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives.

   Bourgeois marriage is, in reality, a system of wives in common.... "]


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