So on tonight's show, in a segment on tea party opposition to net neutrality, Keith Olbermann, in response to his guest's assertion that Glenn Beck talks about net neutrality as some sort of Marxist plot, tosses out the impromptu line: "To the Marxists: Marx is dead and was a lousy thinker."
My first thought: where the hell did that come from? My second thought: is Mr. Olbermann fully cognizant of what he's saying or is he just being a glib, knee-jerk anti-communist? Anti-communists have accused Marx of being many things--an evil fanatic, a dangerous utopian, a tyrannical partisan--but rarely has he been described as a "lousy thinker."
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