Thanks for the bit of info on Kropotkin...interesting fact.
I recently read “The Myth of the Robber Barons” and it had a short bio of Cornelius Vanderbilt among others. His low-cost steamship lines opened travel to the masses. His competitors in the mid 1800s were all taking federal subsidies which they used to build floating palaces for the ultra-wealthy. His competitors went bankrupt and Vanderbilt became fabulously wealthy. History merely repeats itself with Solyndra, et al.
It is a tragedy of human nature that the children and grandchildren who inherited the wealth naively sponsored, championed, and financed communism to atone for their guilt. Of course, that was back when such people harbored childish utopian dreams and before the mass killings and subjugation of hundreds of millions in totalitarian nightmares.
Under the circumstances, one can understand why a Bill Gates or a Warren Buffet might leave a comparative pittance to their issue -- so that they don't piss it away on lame-brained causes.
Those two, however, seem intent on doing that themselves.
And, unfortunately, despite all the bloody evidence of what Communism produces, it hasn't forestalled the second and third generation wealthy from continuing to believe "their childish utopian dreams".
See Stryker, Jon. And every heir and heiress who lavishly contributes to the Democrat party, the environmental "cause", Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, La Raza, the Occupy movement, etc. All they are doing is enriching the socialist forces' stealth attack on their own wealth.
Under the circumstances, one can understand why a Bill Gates or a Warren Buffet might leave a comparative pittance to their issue -- so that they don't piss it away on lame-brained causes.
Those two, however, seem intent on doing that themselves.
And, unfortunately, despite all the bloody evidence of what Communism produces, it hasn't forestalled the second and third generation wealthy from continuing to believe "their childish utopian dreams".
See Stryker, Jon. And every heir and heiress who lavishly contributes to the Democrat party, the environmental "cause", Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, La Raza, the Occupy movement, etc. All they are doing is enriching the socialist forces' stealth attack on their own wealth.