Liberalism Masquerading as American Judeo-Christian Values

Pajamas Media ^ | March 17, 2010 | Howard J. Warner

[KippLanham]

Many argue that America is marching toward socialism. This march started during the Progressive Era of the early 1900s as a softer, incremental, and stealthier ideology than the European Marxism that culminated in revolution and the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1917. This communist ideology spread to Asia, Africa, and South America. It threatened us during the 1940s-1950s (during the McCarthy era), but never gained a strong following in this country. In socialism, the means of production are owned or controlled by the state, while in capitalism individuals manage and own the economic resources (with corporatism blurring the lines, but ultimately in favor of the state as well.) One can view progressives, liberals, and socialists as different points on the continuum from capitalism to communism, rather than as distinct ideologies. Many liberals want to improve society, however many of their programs conflict with the political system established by our Founders. Can we better understand the movement and halt their dangerous plans?

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[deannadurbin]

Not in my church. :)

[jnsun]

During the period of the Enlightenment in Europe the ideas of individual rights and material wealth were encouraged by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Kant, and Hegel. The Enlightenment in Europe ultimately merged the established aristocracy with a state regulated capitalism. It was this structure that Marx and Engels sought to replace.

Howard Warner, are you being paid for this obvious pablum? I have an old college friend, an aging recanting liberal, who gets paid by the word for stuff that is now becoming clear to him, but that I and millions of others could have told him decades ago. Although his Ego still won't let him admit to himself that he has been continuously misguided.

The Suntrade Institute is so far ahead of you, and apparently millions and millions of other American doughheads (apparently an adult majority) that we figure that is why we don't get paid. People, particularly the American female, only hear what they want to hear.

We already know everything you will ever say. It has been written over and over. Karl Marx is the most ignorant reactionary in modern history.

Recommend going back to school and learning a productive trade.

Johnny Suntrade