# Socialists: What are your views?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socialists-what-are-your-views/537156>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 23, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socialists-what-are-your-views/537156 "2010-04-23T22:30:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![transprog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@transprog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/transprog)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socialists-what-are-your-views/537156/101 "2010-05-03T21:48:27Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> IMO, people will have more power when they demand to be considered as people, not as producers or consumers or any other economic unit.

I agree. Yet being a full human being is playing different roles, including economic ones. I’m not arguing that people be seen as purely economic units. But that when it comes to economic issues they will have to think economically, while also taking into account all other aspects of their humanity.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socialists-what-are-your-views/537156/102 "2010-05-04T02:40:12Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> IMO, people will have more power when they demand to be considered as people, not as producers or consumers or any other economic unit.

Quite true. But, isn’t Marxist theory based on the assumption that your economic function is the single most important thing about you?

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**Author:** ![transprog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@transprog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/transprog)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socialists-what-are-your-views/537156/103 "2010-05-04T03:22:03Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Quite true. But, isn’t Marxist theory based on the assumption that your economic function is the single most important thing about you?

Not quite. But as I’m not a Marxist, I don’t care to delve into the Marxist theory of species being.

Here’s some links (read very quickly by me, so they might not be the best):

[HERE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_human_nature)

and [HERE](http://www.answers.com/topic/species-being)

One caveat:

Beware of terminology, For example Marx uses the word Labor differently than we do

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socialists-what-are-your-views/537156/104 "2010-05-04T12:55:14Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Quite true. But, isn’t Marxist theory based on the assumption that your economic function is the single most important thing about you?

I’d say no. But I am \*definitely \*not a Marxist, and I’m fairly anti-Marxism, actually.

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