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Does Obama Employ the Marxist Doctrine of Creative Destruction?
Canada Free Press ^ | March 14, 2010 | Kelly O'Connell

Posted on 03/14/2010 1:52:08 PM PDT by Ablesinner

President Obama is employing tactics right out of a textbook. It is evident for all to see as he systematically destroys the American economy and freedom itself in hopes of ushering in his glorious Marxist Revolution here in America. Having watched Barack Obama’s sole economic recovery strategy of spending hand-over-fist to “heal” our economic malaise and rampant deficits, we must ask if his theory is a cipher for the mythic phoenix? Is Barack a classical Marxist seeking to fix a broken society via torching our economy to ashes, confident it will arise again, healed by socialism and communism? During a turbulently reckless period he seeks a massive government-directed health care bill. Obama now demands wild expenditures on top of record deficits, in the midst of a prolonged recession, against record unemployment. So, what other motivation does such illogical decision making suggest?

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: constitution; deathofthewest; marxism; obama; obamacare
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1 posted on 03/14/2010 1:52:08 PM PDT by Ablesinner
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To: Ablesinner

When the dog catches the car, what does it do?


2 posted on 03/14/2010 1:53:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Ablesinner

“Starve the Monkeys Who Eat Away At Your Life: An Individualist’s Guide to Fighting Modern Progressives”
By Tom Baugh
http://www.starvingthemonkeys.com/index.html


3 posted on 03/14/2010 1:54:21 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: Ablesinner

Yes, and it takes the Canadian press to dare say it.


4 posted on 03/14/2010 1:54:36 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Ablesinner
Is Barack a classical Marxist seeking to fix a broken society via torching our economy to ashes...

Obama is a modern day Nero. He views himself as a god and is fiddling while he has "Rome" burned.

5 posted on 03/14/2010 1:55:01 PM PDT by highlander_UW (Obama has lost or not saved over 4 million jobs!)
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To: Ablesinner
President Obama is employing tactics right out of a textbook.

Heavy sigh...

It is evidently a textbook this journalist hasn't read. I hate to be pedantic, but "creative destruction" isn't a Marxist doctrine. The term was popularized by Joseph Shumpeter who used it to describe the transformative processes of the free market.

6 posted on 03/14/2010 1:59:25 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Ablesinner

I think he is using the Rev Wright doctrine, whitey gets theirs.


7 posted on 03/14/2010 2:00:08 PM PDT by Tarpon ( ...Rude crude socialist Obama depends on ignorance to force his will on people)
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To: Ablesinner
Yes Houston, we have a problem!


8 posted on 03/14/2010 2:03:36 PM PDT by Candor7 (Now's the time to ante up against the Obama Fascist Junta ( member NRA))
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To: Diogenesis
"Yes, and it takes the Canadian press to dare say it."

CFP reads FR.

yitbos

9 posted on 03/14/2010 2:04:44 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: Ablesinner

Creative Destruction is a capitalist idea promoted by Joseph Schumpeter.


10 posted on 03/14/2010 2:07:37 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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“Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

That weird statement by Joe Biden still haunts me and I question if he overheard some Marxist strategy about *a generated crisis* and was quickly given some spin...that he sychophantically *gaffed*.


11 posted on 03/14/2010 2:08:17 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: Candor7

Liberal Fascist is one of the best books on it all.


12 posted on 03/14/2010 2:09:43 PM PDT by Ablesinner
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To: Paleo Conservative

It is also a twisted way at destroying capitalism. Don’t look at it literally as the way a capitalist looks at the terms ‘Creative Destruction’.
From article -
Cloward-Piven Strategy to Cause Economic Collapse

Does Obama have something like a Cloward-Piven principle in mind for shaking out resistance to his economic plans to force Americans to accept socialism by necessity? The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” was designed by Columbia University professors Richard Cloward and wife Frances Piven. Their strategy was simply a method used by leftists to encourage as many eligible people as possible into signing up for all the social welfare programs available. This is meant to then bankrupt the system. After this occurs, the plan is to push a country towards socialism. But the general strategy can also be adapted to other methods of bankrupting a nation.


13 posted on 03/14/2010 2:11:57 PM PDT by Ablesinner
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Much as I enjoy and applaud CFP’s reporting in general, I believe the use of the phrase “creative destruction” is a misnomer or misapplication here. To my understanding, and I am willing to be corrected on this, CD is a process within an otherwise stable and law-abiding capitalist system where a normal process of innovation and competition, fueled, yes, by greed and the general forces of entrepreneurship force older, inefficient methods and means of manufacturing out of the market. The new methods have an absolute test of market efficiency to hurdle. That is, they must achieve some combo of: cheaper, faster, safer, produce less toxic/hazardous by-products, and they must do so as they develop out of their own birthing pains against the backdrop of existing and apparently successful means of production, marketing, and distribution. In other words, they have to compete against the established big dogs even as they stumble into their own youth and adolescence.

Nothing like that is what is going on here. We are talking about whole industries being seized via legislative and/or executive fiat. We are talking about dramatic changes in legislation obsoleting existing “art”. The new ways have no market-based burden to prove their worth, they are just being “deemed” as “the way it will be from here on out”. The new ways are being done under a covert strategy of advancing union strength and expanding taxation and government and administrative load by any means conceivable. There is nothing natural nor creative going on. Indeed, the new mandates are arguably already proven counter-productive by multiple historical example. No, we are now living on the chalkboard of egghead idealogues who despise the dynamics of the free markets and the tenets of Constitutional liberty and only wish to impose their self-proclaimed yet spurious superior intellect upon a population for whom they have nothing but disdain. They are no saints, they are absolutely *not* above their own impulses to loot the public treasury by any measure, and anyone thinking so is naive to the point of absurdity. Their utter lack of real-world commercial and managerial experience is nothing if not a danger sign that their aims are not of the “world” most of us think we live in, but of details-missing worlds wistfully dreamt of by tenured professors from East Coast liberal colleges who wear sweaters with patches on the elbows.

Obama et al are Creating Destruction. The process isn’t anything resembling what is normally meant by “creative destruction”.


14 posted on 03/14/2010 2:22:00 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

That’s true, it’s the wrong term.

However, there is a classic Marxist technique which I have heard referred to as “miserification.” That is, you increase the hardship and even poverty of a given society in order to anger the citizens and make them look to Marxism as a savior.

That’s what I think he’s doing.


15 posted on 03/14/2010 2:25:49 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius

Absolutely. Another variation: Arsonist calls in the fire department to paint himself as the hero.


16 posted on 03/14/2010 2:42:29 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Bottom line: A Communist Putsch in Washington, D.C. is going on even as I type these lines: Obama, his key advisors and staff, at least 80 members of Congress, Union thugs like SEIU, etc. are hardcore traitors to the United States and are bent on our destruction.

Therefore, We The People have every legal and moral right to secure their imprisonment by legal means if possible, but by civil war if necessary.

I say the next Tea Party that hits D.C. needs to leave the wife and kids at home and bring their guns.


17 posted on 03/14/2010 2:43:14 PM PDT by Ronbo1948
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To: Ablesinner

Absolutely right on assessment of the fermenting Marxist coup and revolution commies have been dreaming about for years. The prize is the USA and the wealth of resources available to fund communist utopia for the party elite.

I hate commies. And it is still legal to do so, for now.


18 posted on 03/14/2010 2:47:47 PM PDT by o_zarkman44 (Obama is the ultimate LIE!)
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To: Ablesinner

They are on target here.


19 posted on 03/14/2010 2:50:51 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Ablesinner

Absolutely right on assessment of the fermenting Marxist coup and revolution commies have been dreaming about for years. The prize is the USA and the wealth of resources available to fund communist utopia for the party elite.

I hate commies. And it is still legal to do so, for now.


20 posted on 03/14/2010 2:52:38 PM PDT by o_zarkman44 (Obama is the ultimate LIE!)
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