Posted on 08/06/2005 6:19:16 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
Mark for the re-read...
There yuh go...
Agreed. Is that a new tagline I see there?
Yes, I know.
"Marx's Chair" is in the British Library, memoralizing this person.
He pompously wrote about factory workers yet never once visited one. Arrogance, unmitigated arrogance.
My theory is that Marxism, socialism, and pseudo-"liberalism" are simply expressions of bullying. Unfounded claims of virtue, which any adult should ridicule.It is pervasive exactly where you would expect it - in the "objective" journalists who think that nothing matters but PR, with the result that journalists are
- arrogant, and
- timid in the face of the rest of the people who "buy ink by the carload."
Leftism is nothing but selfish exploitation of propagada power.
There are quite a few quotable passages in this piece. On my second time through it, I was even more impressed.
Self ping for re-read
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Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx
First reading took much of morning, but was worth it.
Print it out. Re-read it and highlight it.
Pass it on to your college-age or older children.
Thanks for the post.
Ak47's enable duping.
I'm putting Barry Loberfeld's name on my 'good guy' list.
Brilliant. Bookmarked.
will not content itself with administering and governing the masses economically. It will also administer the masses culturally, concentrating in the hands of the State the formation of character, the development and spread of ideas, the standardization of language, the control of literature and the arts, the content of education, and finally the codification of the duties of each citizen to the only moral authority -- the State. All that will demand an immense virtue and many heads overflowing with "good intentions" in this government. It will be the reign of ideological virtue, the most aristocratic, despotic, arrogant, and elitist of all regimes. There will be a new class, a new hierarchy of real and counterfeit humanists and scholars, and the world will be divided into a minority ruling in the name of the Good, and an immense evil majority. And then, woe unto the mass of evil ones!
The Communist state was never anything so much as an Inquisition launched against, not a handful of heretics, but the whole populace, for whom freedom would be only the freedom to do evil.
Canada is already under the rule of a Party which for 40 years has sought to create just such an essentially totalitarian regime.
It is uncertain whether Canada can slide much further down this greasy track without political convulsion. I am not particularly optimistic.
Btw, great post - I've found many of your selections interesting. If you have a ping list, put me on it. ;^)
Hmm...
Just WHERE have we heard something similar recently...
"Islam is the Religion of Peace"
I guess LIEberals are TEOP'ers ("The Economics of Peace") then.
---The internet has rendered it obsolete.---
The internet has not been good for the left. The power of the radical left seems to have largely peeked in the 80's and early 90's. The rise of the internet corresponds to the rise of the right.
The right the individual to to keep and bear arms is opposed by the left because it negates the the power of the collective to be the sole recourse against evil.
Thanks much. I don't really have a formal pinglist, but I won't forget you.
BTW, didn't know you were a Canadian. Best regards, eh?
FMCDH(BITS)
I'll crack a cap off a Canadian ale when the puck drops in October and toast you!
Meanwhile, "Down with commie hosers, eh!"
One of the most damaging idiocies in Marxist publications is the lead paragraph of the infamous "Communist Manifesto" in which the "spectre haunting Europe" is not the accumulating bourgeioise, not the strike breaker thugs, not the monopolist oligarchy, not the militarists. No, the spectre haunting Europe in 1848 was the "spectre of OVERPRODUCTION"!
In a world where societies were essentially paradigm-shaped by chronic spectre of scarcity or wage work, consumer durables, necessities such as food, clothing and urban housing, try to imagine the fruits of an intellect capable of that shrieking violation of logic.
Walter
bump for later read.
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