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Also, to boot, that thread wasn't even a discussion because no one disagreed that Adam Smith's political economics were a basis of Marx's work because it's a goddamned fact. Just because you can post more words about the fact that everyone else (I mean really, who gives a shit?) doesn't make it an AI thread worth keeping.
It doesn't make it a Flames-worthy thread either. As I said, put it in either "Casual Intercourse" or, if necessary, "cryptic's thread emporium."
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Just like the old communist part, mr die, it really is all about who you know, not what you know.
After the Khrushchevites took over, yes. Before that no, both Lenin and Stalin regarded ideology as very important. Both stressed the need to fight bureaucracy, to combat revisionism, and to purge rightists.