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To: KDD
Der Paul and his acolytes merely are following a common thread in history. It is common for an intellectual sounding dogma, like Libertarianism, to be pushed with fervor by a clique of pseudo intellectual dilettantes who falsely claim to have based their new secular religion on an intellectual, rational base.

Marxism. like Libertarianism, is a good example of a political dogma with no grounding in practical reality or a serious rational understanding of human nature yet is feverish preached by fringe political types desperate for meaning and relevance in their pathetic misspent lives.

14 posted on 11/10/2007 6:52:56 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Pacifism is not moral. True morality requires evil be opposed, not appeased)
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To: MNJohnnie

Der AntiPauls and there acolytes merely are following a common thread in history. It is common for an intellectual sounding dogma, like fascism, to be pushed with fervor by a clique of pseudo intellectual dilettantes who falsely claim to have based their new secular religion on an intellectual, rational base.

Marxism. like fascism, is a good example of a political dogma with no grounding in practical reality or a serious rational understanding of human nature yet is feverish preached by fringe political types desperate for meaning and relevance in their pathetic misspent lives.

Many of those intellectual midgets would be surprised to find themselves in agreement with such giants of freedom and democracy as that famous fascist Benito Mussolini when he wrote in The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism the following...

Anti-individualistic, the fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal will of man as a historic entity.... The fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.... Fascism is therefore opposed to that form of democracy which equates a nation to the majority, lowering it to the level of the largest number.... We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the ‘right’, a Fascist century. If the nineteenth century was the century of the individual (liberalism implies individualism) we are free to believe that this is the ‘collective’ century, and therefore the century of the State..


15 posted on 11/10/2007 7:10:35 AM PST by KDD (A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse)
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