I'd like to start off by saying that I, unlike most people here, it would appear, am from the United Kingdom - a country that probably would have underwent socialist reform if not for the announcement of WW1. So I'm sure my country has been influenced by socialism far more than your counttry has. I didn't think this was a real quote when I first heard it reworded in the film ''Southland Tales'', and now I'm shocked at how people are responding to this. Marx expressed a status against the belief of God throughout his life, so let's not take the remark stating his goal was to ''Dethrone God'' literally, because he didn't belief a God existed in the first place! Oh, and if you thought otherwise, you're a moron, just going to throw that in. ''God'' was seem as a force of oppression, as the old capitalists and feudalists, as Tony rightfully pointed out, asserted their authority as a result of His will. An capitalism was an unfair system that exploited workers, and what stood between the world and egalitarianism. Marxism - Marx's philosophy - has never been applied as a political system. The Bolsheviks of Russia may have called their philosophy communism, but in practise it was nothing like communism. The closest we've evevr gotten to it is Cuba actuallly, but then you Americans won't leave them to their own devices, so their economic power is restricted. Furthermore, communists, marxists, socialists, and bolsheviks weren't/aren't racist. To be against God isn't racist. Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany were not only racist, but they were the opponents of the bolsheviks and especially of Karl Marx (don't let the ''socialist'' in ''national socialist'' fool you). The USA was a far more racist nation than the USSR ever was.

A late great American, Andrew Meleshinski of Connecticut may have summed up Adam Smith with these 17 words: "Every person has the absolute right to do anything that is not a provable threat to others.".:

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FOLLOW THE TRUTH IF YOU DO NOT HAVE IT. THE MOST REPEATED LIE: GOVERNMENT SPENDS MONEY---THEY DON'T EVEN SPEND PAPER!

The first three attacks are cow's milk, sugar and vaccinations. After those comes diet sodas and public schools for indoctrination and intimidation.