posted 15 years ago
I think it's very interesting how Marx and his allies tried to take the religious aspect out of the Christian economic systems that communism is based on, only to have it creep in as hero-worship of political leaders a few decades later.
"the qualities of these bacteria, like the heat of the sun, electricity, or the qualities of metals, are part of the storehouse of knowledge of all men. They are manifestations of the laws of nature, free to all men and reserved exclusively to none." SCOTUS, Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kale Inoculant Co.