Posted on 04/13/2014 5:42:59 PM PDT by crazylibertarian
A progressive talk show host this past week did a partial review of Karl Marx’s ten recommendations to establish communist society. He discussed the abolition of rights of inheritance, not completely dismissing it. He also discussed the progressive income tax which he endorsed; of course no self-respecting progressive would ever disagree with that. It is a cornerstone of progressivism. The analog would be that when you go to the grocer’s. The check out clerk would ask for your income statement before determining the charges.
He did admit that Marx wanted to destroy all rights of property; mighty charitable of him. He also stated that Marx, toward the end of his life, said he was not a Marxist, a statement which is pretty much acknowledged but which proves what I’ve been saying for years.
Leftists, whether liberals. Progressives, socialists, communists, fascists or any other persuasion will NEVER accept the consequences of their programs. They will always shift the blame to others, e.g. reactionaries or aberrations. Hitler, Stalin, Mao & Castro all did it. And when a complete butcher like Pol Pot emerges, they are silent.
So let’s throw it out now to all progressives. If you accept income taxes, do you also accept that the IRS abuses are a direct result of them?
And how about the consequences of land use laws, such a zoning laws and their corruptions? Every zoning law change or variance comes with a some kind of a price. Acton’s maxim was correct. Do any of you accept them?
And how about the disruptions to families and the neighborhoods caused by property seizures under eminent domain for the construction of highways? Marx’s goal was the ‘gradual abolition of distinction between town & country.’ You can look it up. What is that but suburban sprawl? Any responsibility on the part of your philosophy? You might try to deny it but it is directly traceable to your planning and zoning boards that are in The Manifesto.
Hundreds of thousands of people have had their homes, even their ancestral homes that had been in their families for decades, condemned. Thriving neighborhoods that had been functioning units were sliced in two and their viability destroyed. The most recent example was the Interstate Highway System. I knew victims and they were devastated after the homes they had worked & saved for were taken from them. They were ‘compensated’ with a supposed fair market value. If you believe it was fair, I have a bridge to sell you. And what about the emotional costs? Do you accept any responsibility?
And how about the speed traps that are the consequence of the government control of our roads and transportation? How about the DHS gauntlet at the airports?
Now how about the failures of the public schools that you so avidly advocate? And their godlessness or do you simply evade that and say, well that’s due to ACLU and not progressives? Well sport, ACLU is a fellow leftist organization.
Do you maintain that our public education system with no moral grounding has no relationship to the fact that ACLU has succeeded in driving all religious principles out of it? And BTW, weren’t the people who did the day to day work at Auschwitz and the Gulag products of public schools?
Our public education system today was laid out by none other than the great progressive educator, John Dewey who stated the goal of education should be to produce functionaries for the state. Don’t worry about people being concerned morality. Just have them obey their superiors. No wonder Adolf Eichmann’s defense was “Befehlen is befehlen.” “Orders are orders.” So will any progressive deny that Dewey was a progressive or not the architect? He is widely regarded as both.
School integration is another example of progressivism run amok and how a good idea can be used to accomplish pandemonium. In 1954, the Supreme Court, Brown vs. The (Kansas) Board of Education, decided that black schools were inherently inferior and thus segregation was unconstitutional; the right decision for the wrong reason.
Just a few years later, there were reports that various civil rights groups would soon agitate for forced bussing to combat de facto racial integration. Parents, black & white, were outraged when their children were shipped for extended periods, miles away from their homes, all aided and abetted by a smug and sanctimonious legal system. It mattered to none of the progressives that the children, the supposed beneficiaries of the entire system, were being used as pawns in a gigantic game of egotism. Few anticipated that the decision would be twisted into this & few agreed with it but it became policy under an out-of-control judicial system that dominates through today.
The Left has a double barreled weapon for its assault on America’s freedom & its traditions. The frontline troops destroy our economic independence and responsibility with its various programs. Schools are a perfect example.
First, the Left gets government to fund education. Then ACLU comes in and drives religion out under the guise of separation of church & state. They have been trying to do it in welfare services and are now leveling their sights on health care. That was why Barack Obama double crossed the Catholic Church with his assurances to then Archbishop Timothy Dolan.
Obama also double crossed the American people with various assurances to them. Make no mistake about it. ACLU will do its best to trample on the principles of the Church when it comes to health care services. Mandatory provision of abortions at all Affordable Care Act facilities and forcing of pharmacies to provide abortifacients despite moral objections is already under discussion in many jurisdictions. Much more is to come.
What other legal and logical twistings await the manipulations of progressives as government intrudes even further into our lives? Just read the original Medicare Act wherein it states that no provision of the Act shall interfere with the practice of medicine. Read that to any physicians’ group for a sick laugh.
Are all these things just aberrations? Or are they just examples of why society needs some more of omniscient guidance of progressives? Will they ever step up and accept some responsibility? ANY responsibility? Will they ever stop to examine their assumptions? Probably not. You see, the hearts of your progressives are just so good.
The take home lesson is to never trust the government and never trust a progressive.
He did admit that Marx wanted to destroy all rights of property; mighty charitable of him. He also stated that Marx, toward the end of his life, said he was not a Marxist, a statement which is pretty much acknowledged but which proves what I’ve been saying for years.
Leftists, whether liberals. Progressives, socialists, communists, fascists or any other persuasion will NEVER accept the consequences of their programs. They will always shift the blame to others, e.g. reactionaries or aberrations. Hitler, Stalin, Mao & Castro all did it. And when a complete butcher like Pol Pot emerges, they are silent.
So let’s throw it out now to all progressives. If you accept income taxes, do you also accept that the IRS abuses are a direct result of them?
And how about the consequences of land use laws, such a zoning laws and their corruptions? Every zoning law change or variance comes with a some kind of a price. Acton’s maxim was correct. Do any of you accept them?
And how about the disruptions to families and the neighborhoods caused by property seizures under eminent domain for the construction of highways? Marx’s goal was the ‘gradual abolition of distinction between town & country.’ You can look it up. What is that but suburban sprawl? Any responsibility on the part of your philosophy? You might try to deny it but it is directly traceable to your planning and zoning boards that are in The Manifesto.
Hundreds of thousands of people have had their homes, even their ancestral homes that had been in their families for decades, condemned. Thriving neighborhoods that had been functioning units were sliced in two and their viability destroyed. The most recent example was the Interstate Highway System. I knew victims and they were devastated after the homes they had worked & saved for were taken from them. They were ‘compensated’ with a supposed fair market value. If you believe it was fair, I have a bridge to sell you. And what about the emotional costs? Do you accept any responsibility?
And how about the speed traps that are the consequence of the government control of our roads and transportation? How about the DHS gauntlet at the airports?
Now how about the failures of the public schools that you so avidly advocate? And their godlessness or do you simply evade that and say, well that’s due to ACLU and not progressives? Well sport, ACLU is a fellow leftist organization.
Do you maintain that our public education system with no moral grounding has no relationship to the fact that ACLU has succeeded in driving all religious principles out of it? And BTW, weren’t the people who did the day to day work at Auschwitz and the Gulag products of public schools?
Our public education system today was laid out by none other than the great progressive educator, John Dewey who stated the goal of education should be to produce functionaries for the state. Don’t worry about people being concerned morality. Just have them obey their superiors. No wonder Adolf Eichmann’s defense was “Befehlen is befehlen.” “Orders are orders.” So will any progressive deny that Dewey was a progressive or not the architect? He is widely regarded as both.
School integration is another example of progressivism run amok and how a good idea can be used to accomplish pandemonium. In 1954, the Supreme Court, Brown vs. The (Kansas) Board of Education, decided that black schools were inherently inferior and thus segregation was unconstitutional; the right decision for the wrong reason.
Just a few years later, there were reports that various civil rights groups would soon agitate for forced bussing to combat de facto racial integration. Parents, black & white, were outraged when their children were shipped for extended periods, miles away from their homes, all aided and abetted by a smug and sanctimonious legal system. It mattered to none of the progressives that the children, the supposed beneficiaries of the entire system, were being used as pawns in a gigantic game of egotism. Few anticipated that the decision would be twisted into this & few agreed with it but it became policy under an out-of-control judicial system that dominates through today.
The Left has a double barreled weapon for its assault on America’s freedom & its traditions. The frontline troops destroy our economic independence and responsibility with its various programs. Schools are a perfect example.
First, the Left gets government to fund education. Then ACLU comes in and drives religion out under the guise of separation of church & state. They have been trying to do it in welfare services and are now leveling their sights on health care. That was why Barack Obama double crossed the Catholic Church with his assurances to then Archbishop Timothy Dolan.
Obama also double crossed the American people with various assurances to them. Make no mistake about it. ACLU will do its best to trample on the principles of the Church when it comes to health care services. Mandatory provision of abortions at all Affordable Care Act facilities and forcing of pharmacies to provide abortifacients despite moral objections is already under discussion in many jurisdictions. Much more is to come.
What other legal and logical twistings await the manipulations of progressives as government intrudes even further into our lives? Just read the original Medicare Act wherein it states that no provision of the Act shall interfere with the practice of medicine. Read that to any physicians’ group for a sick laugh.
Are all these things just aberrations? Or are they just examples of why society needs some more of omniscient guidance of progressives? Will they ever step up and accept some responsibility? ANY responsibility? Will they ever stop to examine their assumptions? Probably not. You see, the hearts of your progressives are just so good.
The take home lesson is to never trust the government and never trust a progressive.
It cannot be said too often — the essential fact of the Left; the one thing upon which all other Leftist ideas are built upon, is hatred of the Judeo-Christian God.
Grasp that, and you grasp it all.
Marx did not theorize for the American form of government. That’s why here, the only way to realize a Marxist progressive agenda is to do it through a presumption of incorporation. Corporations have privileges instead of rights, and those privileges can be tailored to a Marxist agenda, while rights cannot. Therefore the way to ultimately defeat progressives is to attack and defeat this presumption of incorporation. There is no other way, because this is HOW they do what they do - ALL of what they do.
Marxism is nothing more than a way to control the populace while the purveyors of it loot the treasury. Been going on for generations and called many things.
But in the end, all it is is a bunch of common criminals stealing from the people, and the people love them for it.
*psssst*
your income statement determines how much you have to pay for 0bamacare
The Russians showed us how well communism worked, didn’t they?
Was that a machine translation? Eichmann surely never said that!
Regards,
That is a pretty good description.
That is a pretty good description.
Control the populace: Obamacare
Loot the treasury: Solyndra, GM, Chrysler, Unions and on and on who then make donations to their favorite democrat politicians.
It had been going on for generations but before Obama, they were much more secretive about it. Now it is just out in the open and their attitude is “Hey, what are you going to do about it” to the rest of the country. And since the GOPe doesn’t do anything, they will continue.
I believe that corporations are immoral because as they limit liability for actions, their potential for profit is infinite. The other reason is that they are government creations and all creatures of government have the potential for unlimited evil.
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