Posted on 04/25/2023 5:43:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them down between the millstones of taxation and inflation,” goes a line apparently misattributed to Vladimir Lenin. While the quotation is more likely a paraphrase of Lenin by famed economist John Maynard Keynes, it also “seems like a pretty good description of what the Biden administration is doing to America’s middle class,” wrote the New York Post a year ago already. Of course, “inflation,” as in rising prices, is at least largely caused by a phenomenon expressed via another definition of the term: inflating the money supply.
Now, one thing Lenin absolutely did prescribe, explicitly, was the raising of prices by continual money-supply inflation. He did this, he said, because it was the only way to truly destroy “economic freedom” or, as he put it using the term applied to economic systems by socialists, “capitalism.” This is absolutely relevant for us today, too, for a simple reason:
A path of currency destruction is precisely what our government is pursuing.
And both major parties are guilty — though perhaps for different reasons.
Issuing this warning Thursday was commentator Alexander G. Markovsky. Writing at American Thinker, Markovsky presented Lenin’s dark prescription in the latter’s own words. They come from an April 22, 1919 London Daily Chronicle interview with Lenin, which The New York Times subsequently republished.
As Lenin put it, “Experience has taught us it is impossible to root out the evils of capitalism [economic freedom] merely by confiscation and expropriation, for however ruthlessly such measures may be applied, astute speculators and obstinate survivors of the capitalist classes will always manage to evade them and continue to corrupt the life of the community.”
“To accomplish this, Lenin declared, ‘Debauch the currency to overturn the basis of society,’” Markovsky related. Lenin later explained the...
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Further proof the Uniparty only cares about their own backsides.
Communists hate Wiley capitalists.
“Success is the best revenge” is my motto
All that blood from the pen of a loser who abandoned his family and lived in filth. Now roasting in the deepest pits of hell.
It’s not so much anti-capitalist as anti- free market and anti-entrepreneurship.
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