Posted on 06/12/2018 9:05:45 AM PDT by rktman
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” announced President Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall, June 12, 1987.
Begun after Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the Soviet Union existed from 1922 to 1991. With its motto “Workers of the World, Unite!” the Soviet tactic was to train agitators, community organizers, labor organizers and agent provocateurs – provoking agents. These would organize people with grievances and stir up riots to subvert and “tear down” the existing government. When social chaos caused major domestic disruptions, the public would then willingly accept a new order.
Unfortunately, rather than a wonderful utopian society of equality, the efforts of these naive “useful idiots” simply paved the way for martial law and a military communist dictatorship.
Franklin Roosevelt addressed delegates of the American Youth Congress, Feb. 10, 1940: “Some of you are Communists. … You have no American right, by act or deed of any kind, to subvert the government and the Constitution of this nation.”
Instead of setting up a “workers’ paradise,” power was usurped by communist dictators who exercised totalitarian life and death control over some 293 million people across 11 time zones.
Addressing naive students that thought communism would redistribute wealth equally, President Franklin Roosevelt told the American Youth Congress, Feb. 10, 1940: “The Soviet Union … is run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world.”
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But you aren’t supposed to use reason and fact. It’s all about feelings and emotions and the way the world “should” be.
Guess I’m to old to be stripped of my reason/fact thoughts. Probably be declared mentally unfit or something. Gotta watch what I say when I’m at the VA. ;-)
NON print:
http://www.wnd.com/2018/06/reality-of-socialism-not-what-they-teach-in-school/?cat_orig=education
Community Organizer, like Barry Soetoro??
Most young socialists are people who are not going very far in life. In there opinion, they have nothing to lose.
It’s a pity FDR didn’t have the same scruples to how he and the progressives cast aside the Constitution.
If their arguments for why certain new functions for the federal were so good that these should be seen as necessary why not try to make those arguments and try to amend the Constitution so they can also be “and proper” too?
But progressives didn’t need no stinkin’Constitution back then either which explains why the Useful Idiots found their natural home in the progressive ranks.
Note the writer's emphasis that the "scheme of Socialism" requires what he calls "the power of restraining the increase in population"--long the essential and primary focus of the Democrat Party in the U. S.:
"I have suggested that the scheme of Socialism is wholly incomplete unless it includes a power of restraining the increase of population, which power is so unwelcome to Englishmen that the very mention of it seems to require an apology. I have showed that in France, where restraints on multiplication have been adopted into the popular code of morals, there is discontent on the one hand at the slow rate of increase, while on the other, there is still a 'proletariat,' and Socialism is still a power in politics.In other words, the advocates of socialism, when that wicked ideology is put into practice, produce misery and poverty--except for the political "elites" who oversee and administer the totalitarian ideology! Wonder not why Hillary and Bernie advocate for population control, as do all Progressives. For every citizen except these elites, socialism results in equality in mediocrity, want and misery.
I.44
"I have put the question, how Socialism would treat the residuum of the working class and of all classes—the class, not specially vicious, nor even necessarily idle, but below the average in power of will and in steadiness of purpose. I have intimated that such persons, if they belong to the upper or middle classes, are kept straight by the fear of falling out of class, and in the working class by positive fear of want. But since Socialism purposes to eliminate the fear of want, and since under Socialism the hierarchy of classes will either not exist at all or be wholly transformed, there remains for such persons no motive at all except physical coercion. Are we to imprison or flog all the 'ne'er-do-wells'?
I.45
"I began this paper by pointing out that there are inequalities and anomalies in the material world, some of which, like the obliquity of the ecliptic and the consequent inequality of the day's length, cannot be redressed at all. Others, like the caprices of sunshine and rainfall in different climates, can be mitigated, but must on the whole be endured. I am very far from asserting that the inequalities and anomalies of human society are strictly parallel with those of material nature. I fully admit that we are under an obligation to control nature so far as we can. But I think I have shown that the Socialist scheme cannot be relied upon to control nature, because it refuses to obey her. Socialism attempts to vanquish nature by a front attack. Individualism, on the contrary, is the recognition, in social politics, that nature has a beneficent as well as a malignant side. The struggle for life provides for the various wants of the human race, in somewhat the same way as the climatic struggle of the elements provides for vegetable and animal life—imperfectly, that is, and in a manner strongly marked by inequalities and anomalies. By taking advantage of prevalent tendencies, it is possible to mitigate these anomalies and inequalities, but all experience shows that it is impossible to do away with them. All history, moreover, is the record of the triumph of Individualism over something which was virtually Socialism or Collectivism, though not called by that name. In early days, and even at this day under archaic civilisations, the note of social life is the absence of freedom. But under every progressive civilisation, freedom has made decisive strides—broadened down, as the poet says, from precedent to precedent. And it has been rightly and naturally so.
I.46
"Freedom is the most valuable of all human possessions, next after life itself. It is more valuable, in a manner, than even health. No human agency can secure health; but good laws, justly administered, can and do secure freedom. Freedom, indeed, is almost the only thing that law can secure. Law cannot secure equality, nor can it secure prosperity. In the direction of equality, all that law can do is to secure fair play, which is equality of rights but is not equality of conditions. In the direction of prosperity, all that law can do is to keep the road open. That is the Quintessence of Individualism, and it may fairly challenge comparison with that Quintessence of Socialism we have been discussing. Socialism, disguise it how we may, is the negation of Freedom. That it is so, and that it is also a scheme not capable of producing even material comfort in exchange for the abnegations of Freedom, I think the foregoing considerations amply prove." EDWARD STANLEY ROBERTSON
And the idiots, who are exactly that, are among the first to be rounded up and "eliminated." After all, their only training is to be disruptive. The "new order" has no use for that, so they disappear.
Antifas, BLM's and Parkland students; take note. You are actually working for your own extermination.
Thanks.
BKMK
mismanagement of a state-led economy.
Why are the stupidest of us hired for teaching?
Things are a LOT worse than we imagine.
Mexico has a population of about 128 million people. And by all appearances, they are about to elect a rabid socialist as president.
How rabid? When he last ran and lost, he called for an uprising against the government. Otherwise, he is not appreciably different from Chavez or Maduro. Since they rose to power, 1/3rd of the population of Venezuela has been forced to emigrate.
How much will the US have to spend to keep out 43 MILLION desperate “socialism refugees” from Mexico?
Not just a wall, but I would guess 2-4 divisions of US Army personnel on our southern border. As well as back up the Coast Guard with the US Navy.
This means a closed border, closed airspace, closed ports in California, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
I think you meant stoopider.
I remember a Chick tract from the seventies called “The poor revolutionary”; the story line was that the US had been conquered by the Soviet Union.
The story involved two brothers, one Christian and one communist.
TheChristian was killed and the communist ended up being eliminated with all of the other useful idiots.
What made me laugh was that one of the useful idiots looked like Angela Davis — and Jack Chick cited that the useful idiots are the first to be eliminated as historical fact.
Exactly right there is no teaching these people. They know it all. Socialism is the answer to everyone’s problems. They are the smart ones and people that work for a living are the idiots. FEAR OF FAILURE GENERATION RAised by the greatest generation.
I read elsewhere that most socialists are cheap people that do not want to pay for anything; they want something for nothing and that is why they are socialists.
"The goal of socialism is communism."—Vladimir Lenin
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