Posted on 06/30/2019 8:44:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
In 1927, several socialist-leaning American academics visited the Soviet Union, anxious to bring back stories of how successful the new Communist regime had been in its decade of infancy, and how it was exceeding American prosperity by cobbling a technocratic, redistributive path into the future.
Many returned with fantastic stories about how America was, by contrast, backward in its reliance upon free markets and aversion to Soviet-style economic principles. But among those mildly disillusioned by the trip was Roger Baldwin, the founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, who seemed to recognize that, despite whatever fondness he held for redistributionist economic policies, the Soviet Union lacked something which was most fundamental in America, and, incidentally, would lead to the horrific injustices that the Soviet Union would later inflict upon its people.
That is, in America, we’ve long held the notion of individual liberty as sacrosanct. The “social justice” promised by Soviet Communism offered no such protections to its people.
Like many in America, Baldwin was a critic of the treatment of Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Soviet propaganda had made the two immigrants the poster boys of American capitalists’ intolerance and political tyranny. When Baldwin spoke to a group of airplane factory workers about the injustices in America, the Soviet workers began to chant “Sacco and Vanzetti,” as the two had been executed since Baldwin had left America.
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In 1927, several socialist-leaning American academics visited the Soviet Union, anxious to bring back stories of how successful the new Communist regime.
Guess when the democrat play book was wrote they loved Stalin’s constitution.
“In 1961, a test of Sacco’s gun using modern forensic techniques apparently proved it was his gun that killed the guard”
Excellent article!
Thanks for posting.
“There was living space for thirteen families! In this one house!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq__Z-Z_Ofs
Nor is it just -- in the legal or moral sense -- to penalize people who have never committed any wrong, in the name of redressing a grievance in which they never participated. And it is equally wrong to reward people who have never suffered from anything but their own shortcomings.
Reparations are nothing but short-sighted pandering to try to keep the "Gimmes" on the liberal plantation. But only at the cost of alienating every right-thinking white person and a whole host of others who have worked for a living their entire lives.
[[“There was living space for thirteen families! In this one house!”]]
And here are the occupants arriving (Starts at 36 second mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zItJedEZB8M
I thought that was a scene from Dr Zhivago
They've cashed in on reparations 10x over.
Here’s a blast from the past, 2008 to be exact.
OBAMA OPPOSES REPARATIONS
Good schools & job would be better, he said. LOL.
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