I’m a socialist and a historian, socialism is blooming again in N.J.

Newark Star-Ledger ^ | January 28, 2019 | Whitney Shrub

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By Whitney Strub

President Donald Trump and his supporters hate socialism, that much we know. Whether it’s his friend Jair Bolsonaro, the newly inaugurated and scarily fascistic Brazilian president, declaring his nation’s “liberation from socialism,” or just his son Don Jr. making puerile tweets about taking away half of his daughter’s Halloween candy and offensive Instagram posts warning that freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a rising democratic-socialist star, will usher in an age of dog-eating, Team Trump leaves no doubt about its hostility.

The president himself frequently denounces socialism, and last fall, the White House Council of Economic Advisers issued a scathing report, report, “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism.” None of this is worth taking seriously at an intellectual level; the 70-page report is full of inane attempts to link U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to such historical figures as Fidel Castro and Mao Zedong. It insinuates that somehow “Medicare-for-all” will repeat the “tens of millions of deaths by starvation” in Stalinist Russia. Even as scare tactics, this is a joke.

[albie]

Impossible. One cannot be a true historian and a socialist unless he’s the one in charge. The end

[Bonemaker]

“I’m a socialist and a historian, socialism is blooming again in N.J.”

When did socialism stop in Filth Jersey?

[rawcatslyentist]

Kill a Commie for Mommy. 2:57

[Williams]

Another communist dog heard from.

[4Liberty]

[Libloather]

I’m a socialist...

And how can Whitney prove that?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I don’t have any problem with voluntary associations, but with non-voluntary ones.

[rfp1234]

Whitney Shrub?!
Is the related to Coot Veal?

[Peter ODonnell]

Surely any historian who studied history would quickly drop the socialism? Because the facts would convince them that they were either stupid or evil.

[Impala64ssa]

And why do they build wall to keep people from escaping
One summer many yrs ago I worked as a go fer at a parts store. One of our regular customers was the local go to guy when it came to German cars. We nicknamed him Sputnik because years earlier he his wife and then newborn son escaped E Berlin just as the wall was going up. If socialism is such an ideal utopia of sunshine lollipops and all things wonderful, why was that damn wall built in the first place? To keep the Mexicans out?

[Gay State Conservative]

Ya know,”Whitney”...I've done some traveling in my day,including to a number of Third World countries (every one a socialist country),and I've gotta tell ya that every one of them has been a stinkin’,filthy train wreck and cesspool.

[Impala64ssa]

With each passing generation of useful idiots socialism needs to be repackaged and marketed as something new and REVOLUTIONARY. Like those sleazy late night infomercials and free lunch seminars pushing the same old get rich quick scams as new ways to achieve instant wealth. Such as buying real estate with no $$$ down. Making a killing in stocks regardless of market conditions. Investing thousands in the latest snake oil while building a downline or some other unworkable pyramid racket. They’ll tell you other systems failed because they were implemented wrong but they have a proven system that works. Those 4 deadly words THIS TIME IT’S DIFFERENT! And like the hippies before them so many millenials fall for this crap like so many brainwashed little puppies.

[marktwain]

When I was young and foolish, I put some graffiti on a University of Wisconsin Student Union toilet stall:

Socialism: The preferred scheme of knowledgeable dictators everywhere!

[robowombat]

Mr Srub works for the state of NJ (of course) at Rutgers. His two books deal with the porn industry and the Roth obscenity trial. The title of one is Perversion and the other Obscenity.

[beethovenfan]

If you were really a historian you would know that socialism DOES NOT WORK! EVER!

[FreedomPoster]

Register Communists, not guns.

And it’s probably time to start a registry.

[Phillyred]

Socialism doesn’t bloom, it spreads...chokes...like a weed!

[KC_Conspirator]

This GUY author is a total hipster beta cuck.

[TigersEye]

He should write a book on socialism and title Perversion and Obscenity.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

She’d be more honest if she admitted that she teaches “Marxist Bullshit 101”.