Posted on 01/13/2008 8:15:00 AM PST by Delacon
“The latter point is the linchpin of the whole thing. Even Adam Smith promoted free enterprise as only the best for mere humans. He never got around to writing an intended treatise on God and morality, as I understand.”
Actually Smith went into God and religion in great detail in the book he wrote titled “The Theory of the Moral Sentiments”. This and not the later “Wealth of Nations” was the book that made Smith famous and was his most popular book during his lifetime.
“The administration of the great system of the universe ... the care of the universal happiness of all rational and sensible beings, is the business of God and not of man. To man is allotted a much humbler department, but one much more suitable to the weakness of his powers, and to the narrowness of his comprehension: the care of his own happiness, of that of his family, his friends, his country.... But though we are ... endowed with a very strong desire of those ends, it has been intrusted to the slow and uncertain determinations of our reason to find out the proper means of bringing them about. Nature has directed us to the greater part of these by original and immediate instincts. Hunger, thirst, the passion which unites the two sexes, and the dread of pain, prompt us to apply those means for their own sakes, and without any consideration of their tendency to those beneficent ends which the great Director of nature intended to produce by them.”
Check it out here:
http://www.adamsmith.org/smith/tms-intro.htm
The Third Reich was an occult theocracy!!
A monarchy can be more free than a democracy, if the monarch is subject to limitations on what he can do to the subjects. The rights of Englishmen were handed down from tribal chieftains and continued even after the tribes united under a king. That's why our American forebears were free people who set up councils, assemblies and local Town Meetings, and chafed at the consolidation of power by the Parliament/King. We chose to maintain our status as people who had liberties, even as the English centralized power and have steadily lost their freedoms, though they ostensibly have self-rule. Swedish, Canadian and British socialism are left of center, our socialism is just to the right of center but sliding towards the middle. We are losing rights, even as our self-rule seems to still exist. Give Hillary a few years, and our self-rule will also be gone, just as in ancient Rome the Republic became a remnant on which dictatorship was grafted.
I disagree on what that priest had to say but I definitely disagree what FDR did...
Thanks, Delacon
See the Hayek quote on my FR home page, it’s the third one, two paragraphs. It’s directly applicable here.
Pops their circuit-breakers every time.
FP, five will get you ten, that quote is in the book.
“No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.”
— F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
As Solzanitzyn points out in “Lenin in Zuerich,” Lein got everything wrong about what was going to happen in Russia because he wrote and wrote like a Marxist. The Revolution was supposed to start in Germany, not Russia, because Russia was not historically “ripe.” But after the Germans shipped him in to undermine the Russian war effort, and he finally figured out what his real options were, he managed to overturn the existing government and set up a whole new kind of state. As as theorist he ws full of it’ as a tactician, he masterful. In short, he went in with a plan, saw the plan would not work and—after a rustification in Finland— came back and with his former foe and new ally. the Jew Trotsky, created the Soviet state. most of in violation of Marxist principles. Now the ATTITUDES were the same as Marx: the hatred of religion etc. But he bided his time until he consoldiated his power. Events took him by surprise, of course, and he was struck down, and Stalin came into take things in a different direction, certainly away from what Trotsky planned. But Lenin ws no mere ideologue blindly follwing the script of the mastermind.
The leadership was purged by Hitler in 1933 and the SS as we know it today was established. The unemployment was then solved with military spending. At that point Germany was Fascist.
For a good read go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
Goldberg’s proof that fascism and liberalism are identical is the perfect way to prove the connection between liberals and Islamo-fascists. They are the same and working together to destroy Western Civilization.
A great and important post. Fascisim is the main thing we “right wingers” are fighting now even though the left wing idiots continue to try, with their usual “big lie” techniques, to brand “conservative” as fascists. If you had to use one word to characterize Hitlery and her minions, it would be “fascist.” And it applies to too many others also, including many of the RINOs who often espouse fascism without even realizing it. Thank you for the post.
Yes, nearly all our enemies can be classified as Fascists: liberals, Islamo-fascists, RINOs, and even Commies, because they are all socialists in one way or another. It is VERY important that we make this point when debating them.
I was discussing fascism in the post you are referring to. But you are right about our current government being socialist...
When a responsible people rule themselves they understand and appreciate liberty.
When a people (the majority) will not rule themselves, do-gooder politicians feel they know what is best and institute policy to manage people.
At some point, leaders with less-than-noble reasons, under the guise of "doing good" use socialism to control and rape a people.
I believe we have entered that place in time, and within the next 3-5 years will see our country become like any other 3rd-world rat-hole.
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