Posted on 01/14/2005 2:51:18 PM PST by coffee260
"Democracy and Socialism are inseparable." - Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Socialists and many communists around the World have supported democracy as a means to a socialist and eventually a communist end. Karl Marx in The Communist Manifesto detailed his strategy for socialist revolution to eventually bring about full communism. Marx wrote: "We have seen... that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of the ruling class, to establish democracy. The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest by degrees all capital from the bourgeoisie; to centralize all of instruments of production in the hands of the state." Marx said that democracy should be used to establish certain socialist policies to engineer the society toward communism.
I'd say that the United States, European states and most others around the world were following the strategy of the Communist Manifesto pretty well up to the 1980's when they realized that economic socialism simply doesn't work and they can't make it work. Even though most socialist and communist countries have abandoned the idea of economic communism they still, out of habit, maintain other socialist policies which continue to violate fundamental rights.
Today socialists and neo-communists continue to promote their cause under the all encompassing umbrella of "democracy.". Today's socialists use the same old tired rhetoric that unregulated competition is bad and dangerous, that the consumer must be protected from his own ignorance or irresponsibility, they continue to support social engineering projects that undermine productivity, take away opportunity and leave those it was designed to help in poverty.
Of course what they support is socialism, but now they've substituted the word democracy for it, they claim that capitalism creates too much individualism, that it undermines collective responsibility and community involvement, all of which are code words for communism. To coerce collective thinking, the support coercive and even mandatory "community service." The socialists who promote democracy do so because they believe that through organizing their special interest groups they will be able to use the political process to elect and impose their socialist system, which will become increasingly communistic.
It worked for Hitler - first the incompetent Weimar Republic, and then Adolf.
Well, they worked, didn't they. (kidding). Seriously, ensure the product is properly labeled, that's all you need to do.
This is why I grimace each time I hear Bush talking about spreading democracy. The history of democracy, is a one way ticket to socialism.
Now a Republic, with democracy as a check and balance, like America was designed that is something else. And even democracy at the local level is tolerable.. as people can 'vote with their feet'.
" you need to remember how strongly the GOP supports what it calls "democracy" & continues, w/o question, to call America a democracy."
This is one of the things that bothers me a lot about the GOP. And makes me question what their real goals are. Its painfully obvious democracy around the world leads to socialism.
Democracy is mob rule. Democracy-Two wolves and a sheep deciding "what's for dinner".
Does someone have a copy of this artical? Link does not work. The link to Glenn Beck does not work. This was a great read and want to pass it along. Thanks
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