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To: Bernard Marx
I'll personally attest to the fact that Skousen at that time was rational, civil, intelligent, pleasant -- and dead right.

He was and is. History is showing him to be more right with each passing day. I'd love to get a copy of his book ... I wonder if my local public library would have it (ha, ha).
36 posted on 01/03/2003 6:02:32 PM PST by Antoninus
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Local publishing bump!
37 posted on 01/03/2003 6:42:42 PM PST by Antoninus
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To: Antoninus
The book is actually still in print. You can order a copy ($14.95 paperback with probably some shipping cost) from:

http://www.skousen2000.com/Political%20Writings/communist.htm

I'd be astonished if your library had it despite all the First Amendment concerns by professional librarians about keeping internet access to pornography available to young minds.

Meanwhile, there's another book you and contributors to this thread might find interesting. I've read only a review so far (H.A. Scott Trask writing in the January 2003 "Chronicles.")

"Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy" by Paul E. Gottfried is published by the University of Missouri Press (astonishingly!) It details how America is now ruled by cultural Marxism.

Agree with him or not, Gottfried makes some points I think may be very much worth considering. As Trask points out:

"Gottfried is one of the few scholars to notice that the social democratic left won the Cold War. Neoconservatives have been strutting around for a decade, pronouncing the 'death of socialism,' the triumph of democratic capitalism, the ascendancy of conservatism, and the dawn of universal freedom.

"Gottfried makes it clear, in painstaking detail, that all this is fantasy. While Soviet-style communism has failed and has been repudiated by everyone except Castro and Kim Jong Il, the Western form of democratic socialism -- the mixed economy, the welfare state, redistributive taxation, government regulation of business -- stands unchallenged."

Most interestingly to me, Gottfried sees Third World immigration as a tool used by anti-American elites to force social and demographic change and cultural revolution; and Political Correctness as a manifestation of a "deformed Protestant culture" that has been adopted as a substitute for Christianity: "...a misplaced quest for religious redemption that takes the form of worshiping at the multicultural shrine."

I'm not prepared to debate the book until I've read it myself, but the author appears to have some very interesting thoughts that impact the subject we're discussing here.

46 posted on 01/04/2003 8:51:41 AM PST by Bernard Marx
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