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From a Time When Communism Was Taught Right
American Thinker ^
| 25 Nov, 2022
| Kent D. Worley
Posted on 11/25/2022 4:42:15 AM PST by MtnClimber
The rush to communism and the New World Order must be exposed for what it is. We have no farther to look than the guides from the past.
When I was a senior in high school, I was required to take and pass a government class as a condition to graduate. My teacher was a retired Illinois state trooper. Naturally, my teacher had certain opinions about the criminal justice system and the courts. My teacher was not a big fan of the Miranda decision. His issue was not against informing a suspect about his rights; it was more about how the landmark decision was used to invalidate many good arrests on picayune issues. He complained that career criminals, especially murderers, would have their charges dropped by weak judges for matters not related to the arrest.
With this particular teacher, things were black and white, either right or wrong. There was no middle ground. I think that because of his law enforcement background, he was also very anti-communist. He spent minimal time on the U.S. and Illinois Constitution, but we painstakingly labored over the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and The Gulag Archipelago. We spent several weeks reading and discussing summaries he passed out in class.
The final exam was even more intense. We spent a whole month reading various accounts of Russian MiG pilot Victor Belenko's life under communism and his final decision to defect to the West. Each of us in the class had to read the newly printed Reader's Digest condensed book on the subject. We had to read and become familiar with MIG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko. We had to read about his childhood, his education, and his interactions with party officials and their inane attempts to convey how wonderful life was under the regime.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; democrats
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To: MtnClimber
Yep, that is the plan. Good old-fashioned communism.
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posted on
11/25/2022 4:42:45 AM PST
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
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posted on
11/25/2022 4:43:30 AM PST
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
There are some here at FR that communism is just fine
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posted on
11/25/2022 4:44:52 AM PST
by
Nifster
(OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
11/25/2022 5:00:24 AM PST
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: MtnClimber
Bad header. URL Link to original article not given. Please fix it.
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posted on
11/25/2022 5:03:06 AM PST
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux (Let There Be [God's] Light!))
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
11/25/2022 5:05:43 AM PST
by
sauropod
(Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
To: imardmd1
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posted on
11/25/2022 5:07:51 AM PST
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
That’s great.
Forwarding to my brother who brought his feral spawn mouthing social justice platitudes daughter to Thanksgiving yesterday.
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posted on
11/25/2022 5:09:46 AM PST
by
sauropod
(Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
To: imardmd1
To: MtnClimber
Been saying for decades that the marx version of socialism is “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” but Our Americanized version is “from those who can and do, to those who could but won’t. Why should they when they can employ the police power of government to TAKE IT from those who can and do and GIVE IT to those who could.....but won’t”. Poor “educated” progressive saps still can’t see that at the end of the day the police power of government will be used to strip them of all THEY have to give it to those even less motivated than they are. Smdh...and snickering. Not pretty but pretty simple.
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posted on
11/25/2022 5:11:18 AM PST
by
Qwapisking
("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
To: MtnClimber
As a practical matter governments everywhere have found that ownership and operation of the means of production is inefficient.
Instead, they use a combination of purchasing power, subsidies, regulations, taxes, and financial manipulation to control the economy. Some of this is on the government’s balance sheet, but much of it is on the balance sheet of government controlled authorities of various types.
So communism and capitalism are both dead.
To: MtnClimber
They have eliminated classics such as “Gulliver’s Travels” and “Lord of the Flies”.
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posted on
11/25/2022 5:15:04 AM PST
by
Jumpmaster
(U.S. Army Paratrooper. I am the 0.001%.)
To: MtnClimber
What we will have now is “Corporate Communism”.
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posted on
11/25/2022 5:30:07 AM PST
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: Nifster
Bottom line is there are humans on this planet who would murder half the people in the world if they could. Many of these people become abortionists so they can murder “legally” to satisfy their blood lust.
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posted on
11/25/2022 5:31:51 AM PST
by
joma89
(Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
To: V_TWIN
The mere fact people argue in America over “fascism” vs. “communism” shows they have lost the plot. There isn’t any daylight between the two, the American way is superior, in every metric, and it isn’t even close. It isn’t perfect, nobody ever claimed it was. Where is this Utopia, past or present, that all the America Haters can point to? They can’t, because there isn’t any.
But unscrupulous types who want to subjugate the world, they can’t have people around the world clamoring for free speech, or equality under the law, or property rights, or the right to be free from search and seizure, or the right to privacy, or the presumption of innocence in a court of law, trial by jury etc etc.
The really tragic thing is the utter failure by ostensible Republicans to highlight at every opportunity the real refugees from totalitarian governments that landed on our shores.
Some pseudo-intellectual twatwaffle at our universities can fool a bunch of muddle-headed teenagers and potheads, but they can’t pull anything over business men and women, laborers, and other victims of socialism or communism.
One of our local business leaders was the founder of a machine tool company that made high speed precision gearboxes. An immigrant, he had suffered under the Nazis, and later, the Communists. OSHA started hassling his factory regularly for what he considered minor chicken&@$t stuff - 12 volt wires without any conduit, stuff like that. He testified before Congress on the disturbing parallels between all these bureacratic wankers and heavy handed red tape.
When actual victims of oppression around the world, who have escaped to America start getting concerned, we should listen. Where are there voices?
Why aren’t these kind of folks on CNN/ABC/NBC/PBS/MSNBC every month, telling their tales? These are conscious editorial decisions. What the news organizations DON’T report is every bit as important as what they choose to report. Far be it for me to give Democrats advice, especially good advice, but somebody like Gabbard could get a lot of mileage on stuff like this.
The silence is truly deafening, the media is just pure shit in almost every regard. They didn’t used to be, at least not completely and overtly. Very sad.
To: FarCenter
We have been closely monitoring the signs of a global cleaving around the energy sector taking place. Essentially, western governments’ following the “Build Back Better” climate change agenda which stops using coal, oil and gas to power their economic engine, while the rest of the growing economic world continues using the more efficient and traditional forms of energy to power their economies.
Within the BBB western group (identified on map in yellow), the logical consequences are increased living costs for those who live in the BBB zone, and increased prices for goods manufactured in the BBB zone. In the zone where traditional low-cost energy resources continue to be developed (grey on map), we would expect to see a lower cost of living and lower costs to create goods. Two divergent economic zones based on two different energy systems.
This potential outcome just seemed to track with the logical conclusion. The yellow zone also represented by the World Economic Forum, and the gray zone also represented by an expanding BRICS alliance. Against this predictable backdrop we have been watching various events unfold, some obvious and some less so.
Today, we get an obvious example:
NEW DELHI, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Fiat parent Stellantis (STLA.MI) has concluded it can’t currently make affordable electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe and is looking at lower-cost manufacturing in markets such as India, its chief executive told reporters.
If India, with its low-cost supplier base, is able to meet the company’s quality and cost targets by the end of 2023, it could open the door to exporting EVs to other markets, said Carlos Tavares, CEO of the group whose brands also include Peugeot and Chrysler.
“So far, Europe is unable to make affordable EVs. So the big opportunity for India would be to be able to sell EV compact cars at an affordable price, protecting profitability,” Tavares told reporters at a media roundtable in India late on Wednesday.
Stellantis is investing heavily in EVs and plans to produce dozens in the coming decade, but Tavares warned last month that affordable battery EVs were between five and six years away.
On his first visit to India since taking over as Stellantis CEO, he said the company was still working out a plan regarding EV exports from the country and had not yet taken any decisions. (read more)
Normally we would expect to see market forces determining the ultimate economic outcome. Historically, we would not expect government policy that puts their nation at an economic disadvantage. However, in this WEF controlled new western economic normal we see multinational corporations’ making decisions and government leaders creating policy to support the corporations.
There is money to be made by corporations within the climate change agenda, and there is money to be made by producing goods with low-cost wages and cheap materials. Eventually, if you keep following this to its natural conclusion, the entire yellow zone becomes a service driven economy.
Multinational corporations in control of government are what the BRICS assembly foresaw when they first assembled during the Obama administration. When multinational corporations run the policy of western government, there is going to be a problem. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) saw President Obama sub-contracting, actually giving away, U.S. trade policy.
In the bigger picture, the BRICS assembly are essentially leaders who do not want corporations and multinational banks running their government. BRICS leaders want their government running their government; and yes, that means whatever form of government that exists in their nation, even if it is communist.
BRICS leaders are aligned as anti-corporatist. That doesn’t necessarily make those government leaders better stewards, it simply means they want to make the decisions, and they do not want corporations to become more powerful than they are. As a result, if you really boil it down to the common denominator, what you find is the BRICS group are the opposing element to the World Economic Forum assembly.
The BRICS team intend to create an alternative option for all the other nations. An alternative to the current western trade and financial platforms operated on the use of the dollar as a currency. Perhaps many nations will use both financial mechanisms depending on their need.
The objective of the BRICS group is simply to present an alternative trade mechanism that permits them to conduct business regardless of the opinion of the multinational corporations in the ‘western alliance.’
Again, if you follow the Build Back Better agenda to its natural conclusion, the entire yellow zone becomes a service driven economy.
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posted on
11/25/2022 5:38:16 AM PST
by
Bratch
To: Openurmind
What we will have now is “Corporate Communism”.
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AKA, fascism... the actual definition of fascism.
To: MtnClimber
“Yep, that is the plan. Good old-fashioned communism.”
I miss those days. Back then we had a reason when we sent our boys around the world to fight wars, or support proxy wars. Now we seem to do for sport, or perhaps “Western Values”...whatever that means.
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posted on
11/25/2022 5:41:41 AM PST
by
BobL
(By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 25 degrees)
To: V_TWIN
“Somewhere along the line the course was removed from the school curriculum and it shows.”
It got removed when our ‘Greatest Generation’ parents were too busy trying to climb the corporate ladder, and didn’t bother seeing what the Left was doing to our schools.
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posted on
11/25/2022 5:43:32 AM PST
by
BobL
(By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 25 degrees)
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