Was Thomas Jefferson an "unrepentant, wealth-redistributing, class-warfare waging Marxist"?

Question

Just quoting what somebody said about Obama.
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"The property of this country is absolutely concentred in a very few hands, having revenues of from half a million of guineas a year downwards... I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on."

- Thomas Jefferson letter to James Madison
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=967

"We are all the more reconciled to the tax on importations, because it falls exclusively on the rich, and with the equal partition of intestate's estates, constitutes the best agrarian law.. Our revenues once liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., and the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spare a cent from his earnings."
--Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811. ME 13:41
http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff13.txt

Answer 1

Nice job editing that quote out of context.

I wonder why you didn't include this actual quotation:

"If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling, and indeed ridiculous, to suppose that a man has less right to himself than one of his neighbors, or indeed all of them put together. This would be slavery, and not that liberty which the bill of rights has made inviolable, and for the preservation of which our government has been charged." —Thomas Jefferson

Answer 2

No He was always thinking that if you have land you can make a life for you and your family. He saw the taxation of farmers to be counter productive as the margins of small farms would preclude taxation on a group that took a raw commodity, land , and was able to feed and clothe his family. When the small farmer could put his profit back in his land it was more valuable to the country as a whole. That way the small farmer would in a shorter time have excess products needed by a growing country.

Answer 3

In the context of his time TJ said some inpirational things, but like all of us, we fall short in acting as our better selves. He is the one attributed to be the inspiration of the Democratic Party.

Answer 4

No.
We never really had Any Real Marxists in this country until the Communists took over the Democrat Party in the late 60's.

Answer 5

Thomas Jefferson was a prick who thought the US could invade Canada and take the country by marching, and then go on to defeat Britain...

Answer 6

You left out the last sentence of Jeffersons quote. He then said. "...and if you believe this sir then head ye back to England where the government will surely take your earnings from you and give you nothing in return."

Answer 7

One of the my favorite Presidents.

Answer 8

Compared to Alexander Hamilton...............Yes!