[ProgressingAmerica]

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Progressives do not want to discuss their own history. I want to discuss their history.

Summary: You will see Barack Obama in Philip Dru if you take the time to go through this book.

[Bigun]

Economic Justice is code for: "From each according to his ability to each according to his need"

[Smokin' Joe]

Screwing one person so the other feels good.

I doubt that would work in economics, either.

[Little Ray]

That’s easy.

“Economic Justice” is equally distributed poverty as opposed to unequally distributed prosperity.

[jimfree]

Social justice wonks ignore a huge factor. It is impossible for the wealthy to further their own interest without furthering that of others. They aren’t really into self-sufficiency or disintermediation. They need caterers, cabinet makers, car manufacturers, kung fu instructors, and such. They pay these providers what they are worth, so if the providers shine they are enriched.

I work for rich people in my day job and in my major second vocation.

It is the way of things.

[Texas Eagle]

And the man or woman who fails to do his duty, not as he sees it, but as society at large sees it, will be held up to the contempt of mankind.

Unless, of course, he or she is a DemocRAT, in which case, said duty does not apply.

[khelus]

Interesting analysis of Philip Dru found here

Note the ties to 'Globalism', Free Trade without the constraints of morality or patriotism [advocated by Marx to speed the onset of global communism], The Fed [central control of credit, one of the 10 planks of communism], and the CFR.

[Texas resident]

With king obama, economic justice is a fancy word for reparations.

[csmusaret]

Economic justice is taking money from those still willing to work for a living and giving it to those who vote for a living.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

just another euphemism for leftist control

[melsec]

Those who are forced to do ‘Justice’ will do no Charity.

Mel

[SaraJohnson]

I saw this ideal of economic “justice” work on a micro level in a family's inheritance. The good children who worked hard and achieved a measure of success got nothing. The slackers who messed up their lives for immediate gratification (cheating and divorce, school drop out, substance abuse etc.) were rewarded with money because they had none.

There is no doubt in that family that economic justice is up-side-down. It rewards evil and punishes goodness.

[bkepley]

My guess is he’s a greedy, tight-fisted SOB himself.

[MasterGunner01]

When Barry Obama becomes unemployed.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

“Economic Justice” means, to me, that intelligence, hard work, risk-taking, and talent are rewarded in the marketplace. To liberals, “Economic Justice” means that everyone makes the same income, irrespective of the above characteristics.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

The most important element of this piece is right here:

but as society at large sees it

Because that implies a whole ton:

* Charity is not noble or worthy unless it can be done at a quantifiable level that passes muster at a societal level, vice an individual level.
* Society now has a vested interest in controlling all aspects of charity; charity should, in fact, be a duty of the state.
* With society the ultimate judge of charity, what is decided to be charity is left to democratic opinion, which can then be enforced with guns.

In sum, it ain't charity unless the government signs off on it, and guess what, you're going to be charitable or we're going to kill you.

[mjp]

If the powerful use their strength merely to further their own selfish desires, in what way save in degree do they differ from the lower animals of creation?

In the twentieth century, there has been a growing influence of irrationalist philosophy, which denies the reliability and efficacy of human reason and which disregards the profound influence that the possession of reason exerts on every aspect of human life. According to such philosophy, there is little to distinguish man from the lower animals.

To the degree that they exist, freedom and the pursuit of material self-interest operating in a rational cultural environment, are the foundation of all the other institutions of capitalism.

[gundog]

Apparently it means that if you’ve managed to save any money, you need to give it to folks that spent theirs on piercings, tattoos, and weed.

[muir_redwoods]

True economic justice is the unshakeable observation that no one has any claim on wealth except the one who created it. If that person chooses to pay another for work, that is between those two alone

That’s justice and fairness.