Posted on 06/12/2019 12:33:17 AM PDT by RightGeek
Limousine liberals publish extended advert for ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’
The New York Times may have given up on political cartoons, but it hasn’t lost its sense of humor. On Tuesday morning, the Times ran an extended advertisement for communism. Cockburn wondered at first if this was an attempt to make up for the cartoon deficit by running a political cartoon in verbal form, but no. The Times, the preferred prejudice-flatterer of some of the richest Americans, wants us, the proles, to give the most murderous ideology in history another chance.
This time, our maximum leader is Aaron Bastani. Instead of Marxist-Leninism or Mao Zedong Thought, it’s what Bastani calls ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’.
‘Asteroid mining. Gene editing. Synthetic meat,’ Chairman Bastani writes. ‘We could provide for the needs of everyone, in style. It just takes some imagination.’
Cockburn, unlike the Times, can take a political joke. He often sits down of an evening with a half-bottle of whiskey, a family bag of Doritos and a volume of Karl Marx. Bastani is selling an updated version of Marx’s sales pitch that communism is a better way of managing the technology and output of capitalism. Aaron has asteroids, and Karl had hemorrhoids, but both promise the workers that automation and centralized redistribution will give a life of comfort for all.
Older readers and survivors of re-education camps in the countryside may recall how it went when the communist ‘imagination’ was applied in the 20th century: a moral wasteland of police states, the Gulag Archipelago of prison camps in Russia, the Great Leap Forward that starved millions of Chinese peasants, the industrial failure that made the Soviet Union like ‘Upper Volta with nuclear missiles’, a global environmental catastrophe, and the tens of millions of dead.
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Communist secret police in Poland murdered my great uncle, a retired farmer who had become a courier for Rural Solidarity.
Communists just want a peaceful utopia on Earth... even if they have to kill all of humanity to get it.
In Vietnam I once came across the body a dead child, killed because Americans visited her village.
I really and truly HATE COMMUNISTS and all they stand for.
And that goes equally for socialists, and progressives.
Absolutely, but only if you kill enough of the right people.
I have long been maintaining here that their next argument would be that advancing technology would FINALLY allow them to make it work.
They think of themselves as “progressive” when in fact they are merely “retrogressive”. Recycling the same old, tired Communism, springing it on a new generation that has been intentionally left uneducated for this specific purpose.
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