Posted on 11/06/2011 3:08:08 PM PST by Hojczyk
A giant effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama is held up by people affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement during a march outside Zuccotti Park in New York
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This group is entertaining, if nothing else.
Actually, it does.
frightening....
What are they going to do with that giant effigy? Burn it or worship it?
Those racists!
Okay, Gotta figure this out. Looks like a double reverse. Why would these socialist bass turds be carrying around an effigy of a socialist bass turd?
That’s not racist... it’s Chuck Berry
Look, a creative solution to the human waste problem over there.
I haven’t heard a single argument that has made any sense and now they are playing with dolls.
Why?
LOL, well, they got the ears right.
The term cult of personality comes from Karl Marx’s critique of the “cult of the individual”—expressed in a letter to German political worker, Wilhelm Bloss. In that, Marx states thus:
“ From my antipathy to any cult of the individual, I never made public during the existence of the [1st] International the numerous addresses from various countries which recognized my merits and which annoyed me... Engels and I first joined the secret society of Communists on the condition that everything making for superstitious worship of authority would be deleted from its statute. ”
Nikita Khrushchev recalled Marx’s criticism in his 1956 “Secret Speech” denouncing Stalin to the 20th Party Congress:
“ Comrades, the cult of the individual acquired such monstrous size chiefly because Stalin himself, using all conceivable methods, supported the glorification of his own person. . . . One of the most characteristic examples of Stalin’s self-glorification and of his lack of even elementary modesty is the edition of his Short Biography, which was published in 1948.[3]
This book is an expression of the most dissolute flattery, an example of making a man into a godhead, of transforming him into an infallible sage, “the greatest leader,” “sublime strategist of all times and nations.” Finally no other words could be found with which to lift Stalin up to the heavens.
We need not give here examples of the loathsome adulation filling this book. All we need to add is that they all were approved and edited by Stalin personally and some of them were added in his own handwriting to the draft text of the book.
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