Sir;.... As much as the libel of Marxism has been lathered on the democrats, it is not true... They are a little soft headed, but primarily pragmatists or utilitaians, trying to find the greatest good for the greatest number.... I am a Marxist if that means having read Das Capital... It is great reading, and a real history of the industrial revolution in Europe... And Marx really was a great and thourough economist....Yet; in the line of philosophers he is considered an Idealist...Napoleon coined a word for such people who see the world through ideas as ideologues, People who talk and do not act; and they surround us... Many are the people who run scared from ideas, or let them do their thinking for them...Marxism is just one such idea that people use as a boogie man to scare dimwits or drunks or small children.... I am certain that Marx would agree that it does not matter fundamentally what form of economy people have, or what form of government people have; but that ultimately all forms must serve the needs of enough people or they will not last...Clearly, some forms in failing take the whole society with them... Just as Nazism invited the destruction of German society and its recreation under a new form of government, our own society could put us under foreign masters as it fails... We cannot predict the future, but in one sense at least the future has been told by the past... We have had similar economies; slave economies... And we have had similar governments, like the Roman Republic, that ended first in tyranny and then in total failure... We can count on our good fortune... This is a nation of gamblers... But if we must trust to fate for our fortune our cause is done... Human beings determine their fate by their choices, and the use of ideology to frighten and control people limits their choices.... Now; I am not an idealist..I am not a Marxist... I can see all ideas and forms objectively through a lens of how well they feed the relationships within...Which is easy enough since these forms are all forms of relationship...What I can clearly see is that capitalism does not work for the relationship... It seems to work for a few; but if the best thing some mouth piece can say is that capitalism is not socialism, that is hardly a recommendation for capitalism...If I were you I would try to sell capitalism to America like a Pilgrim selling Christianity to a savage...Act like they don't know how bad cpitalism fails, and tell America how great it works...Instead of telling them how rotten socialism is which may have the effect of giving them the want of it; show them how much good Capitalism does for them... Let me tell you something about your history... Protestant Christianity grew up with capitalism...It justified capitalism even while capitalism robbed it of converts who grew rich and moved away, spiritually if not physically... As a moralist, which is what I am, capitalism is only so much immorality and a nest for more...It does not matter what religious, or dogmatic justification is given to capitalism....It does not work, and it does not work for living breathing people, so all justification is empty.... Make the case for capital if you can...Show the world who it works for, and prove the good it does...The fact is that it is a failed form, and all along it has perverted the purpose of our government, which in a word, is Good... I invite you to prove socialism failed at the same moment... It is not by forms, and ideas that we will be made whole... We need to judge all forms by how well they work for people... We need the moral criteria for forms...We as a people cannot possibly be made great by a form that makes us small...We cannot be made just by a form that denies us justice... We cannot enjoy the wealth of liberty with a form that reduces us to poverty....Make all the defense of capital you wish and the form has failed because it has failed humanity....Thanks...Sweeney