In an article originally published in The Chartist (1847), Karl Marx and Frederick Engels discuss free trade policy from a socialist perspective:

Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat.

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In an article originally published in The Chartist (1847), Karl Marx and Frederick Engels discuss free trade policy from a socialist perspective:

Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat.

anonymous · Answer

According to this document, how could embracing free trade help advance the socialist cause?

micahm · Answer

Some socialists have adopted the causes of other social movements, such as ... for an alternative post-capitalist system based on some form of social ownership. ... This latter word could mean companionship and fellowship as well as the more ... according to his or her capacities and rewarded according to his or her work.

anonymous · Answer

someone please explain this to me i dont understand this article

micahm · Answer

says Wikipedia

anonymous · Answer

this doesn't really help me...

anonymous · Answer

please some one help me...