Creative Destructionism

Free Republic | 10/08/2011 | Publius

[Vintage Freeper]

Creative Destructionism

    Capitalism has been described as "creative destructionism". Market Based Management (MBM) is a management system built on the logical framework of Austrian economic theory. The path of evolution of a politically effective plan built around the ideas of liberty more closely resembled the creative destructionism of capitalism than a well-organized management plan, but the finished product can readily be described in the terms used to describe MBM. As part of the Great Debate that defines the advantages of capitalism over the liabilities of socialism, one of the primary goals of our politically effective plan is to help people recognize that "politically correct" is not only not hip, but also largely irrational.

• Vision: An American Renaissance based on political reforms built around Austrian economic theory and the restoration of the United States Constitution as part of establishing a laissez-faire capitalistic free market.

• Virtues and Talents: Freedom, both political and economic are the principles that made America great. Our Reagan Wing candidates and our methods of electing them embrace the best of American Ingenuity.

• Knowledge Processes: Explains the contrasts between Austrian economic theory based on Capitalism versus Keynesian economic theory built on socialism and central planning.

• Decision Rights:  Defines how to successfully leverage the voting power of We the people versus the top down Congressional central planning that has prevailed since 1912.

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[Vintage Freeper]

This is the second of the two articles written for the Koch brothers. We have lagged behind our intention to try to publish an article per day during the week, but we are maintaining an index or a sitemap if you will, that has continuously updated links to the articles as they are published, and the titles that do appear as hyperlinks are those remaining to be published.

[humblegunner]

We have lagged behind our intention to try to publish an article per day during the week, but we are maintaining

"We" who? Got a gerbil in your pocket?

Or are you just all wee-wee'd up?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Vintage Freeper.

Market Based Management (MBM) is a management system built on the logical framework of Austrian economic theory. The path of evolution of a politically effective plan built around the ideas of liberty more closely resembled the creative destructionism of capitalism than a well-organized management plan, but the finished product can readily be described in the terms used to describe MBM. As part of the Great Debate that defines the advantages of capitalism over the liabilities of socialism, one of the primary goals of our politically effective plan is to help people recognize that "politically correct" is not only not hip, but also largely irrational.

[ETL]

The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
[Obama's strategy for destroying the economy]
frontpage.americandaughter.com
| August 31, 2008 | Jim Simpson

Liberals self-righteously wrap themselves in the mantle of public spirit. They ardently promote policies promising to deliver the poor and oppressed from their latest misery — policies which can only find solution in the halls of government. But no matter what issue one examines, over the last fifty plus years, the liberal prescription has almost always been a failure.

Why is this so? Why does virtually every liberal scheme result in ever-increasing public spending while conditions seem to get continually worse? There are a number of reasons:

1. The programs usually create adverse incentives. This is especially true in so-called “anti-poverty” programs. The beneficiaries find government subsidies a replacement for, rather than a supplement to, gainful employment and eventually become incapable of supporting themselves. This in turn creates a dependent culture with its attendant toxic behaviors which demand still more government “remedies.”
2. The programs create their own industry, complete with scads of “think tanks” and “experts” who survive on government research grants. These are the aptly named “Beltway Bandits.”
3. They create their own bureaucracies, whose managers conspire with interested members of Congress to continually increase program funding, regardless of merit.
4. Members of Congress secure votes and campaign donations by extorting them from beneficiaries of such programs, either through veiled threats — “vote for me or those mean Republicans will wipe out your benefits” — or promises of still more bennies.

In short, all develop a vested interest in the program’s survival. But if the result is always more and more government, of government, by government, and for government, with no solution in sight, then why do liberals always see government as the solution rather than the problem?

Similarly, liberals use government to promote legislation that imposes mandates on the private sector to provide further benefits for selected groups. But the results are even more disastrous. For example, weighing the laws or stacking the courts to favor unions may provide short term security or higher pay for unionized labor, but has ultimately resulted in the collapse of entire domestic industries.

Another example is health care. The Dems are always trying to impose backdoor socialized medicine with incremental legislation. Why do you suppose American healthcare is in such crisis? Answer: the government has already become too deeply involved. For example, many hospitals are closing their doors because they are overwhelmed with the burden of caring for indigent patients, illegal immigrants and vagrants who must, by law, be admitted like everyone else, despite the fact that they cannot pay for services. Read about it here — Destroying Our Health Care. The net result is reduced availability of care for everyone, exactly the opposite of what liberals claim to want.

To further complicate things, liberal jurists and lawyers have created new theories of liability that utilize the legal system as a means to further redistribute income. This too, has resulted in higher costs and prices in affected industries, higher insurance costs, or in some cases, complete elimination of products or services.

Liberals’ endless pursuit of “rights” for different groups also does little but create increasing divisions in our society. Liberal policy pits old against young, men against women, ethnic and racial groups against one another, even American citizens against illegal aliens, all in the name of “equality.” The only result is anger, tension and equal misery for all.

How does any of this improve our lot?

Finally, when companies relocate overseas to avoid the high cost of unionized labor and heavy domestic regulation, liberals sarcastically excoriate them for “outsourcing” America. Yet, when it comes to certain domestic industries, liberals in Congress suddenly become free marketers and choose to buy from overseas contractors rather than domestic suppliers. This happened most recently with a huge military contract being outrageously awarded to the heavily subsidized European consortium, AIRBUS, over America’s own Boeing. Since liberals claim to be so determined to “save the American worker,” what gives?

You have to take a step further back and ask some fundamental questions. Why is the liberal public policy record one of such unmitigated disaster? I mean, even the worst batter hits one occasionally. No one bats zero. No one that is, except liberals.

Prior to the Republican takeover in Congress in 1994, Democrats had over fifty years of virtually unbroken power in Congress with substantial majorities most of the time. With all the time and money in the world — trillions spent — they couldn’t fix a single thing, not one. Today’s liberal has the same complaints, and the same old tired solutions. Can a group of smart people, studying issue after issue for years on end, with virtually unlimited resources at their command, not come up with a single policy that works? Why are they chronically incapable?

Why?

When things go bad all the time, despite the best efforts of all involved, I suggest to you something else is at work — something deeper, more malevolent.

I submit to you that it is not a mistake, the failure is deliberate!

There is a method to the madness, and the method even has a name: the Cloward-Piven Strategy. It was first elucidated in the 1960s by a pair of radical leftist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven:

The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis…. …the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

[Part II of this article will explore those organizations created to implement the Cloward-Piven strategy and their ties to the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama.]

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The Complete Cloward-Piven Series

The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I: Manufactured Crisis
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I — print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II — print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III: Conspiracy of the Lemmings
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III — print copy
Hate Crimes Legislation — Back Door Censorship
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Also see (from David Horowitz's DiscoverTheNetworks.org) ...

THE CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY (CPS):

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7522
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Cloward, Piven and the Fundamental Transformation of America

Tuesday, January 05, 2010
By Glenn Beck

Meet Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven,
authors of the Cloward-Piven strategy

"I'm going to give you a hard concept to get your arms around: It's the concept that there are people in this country who want to intentionally collapse our economic system."-Glenn Beck

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582097,00.html

Cloward, Piven and the Fundamental Transformation of America

Cloward, Piven and the Fundamental Transformation of America

[Cringing Negativism Network]

BUY AMERICAN

Commence the Trade War!

[Outlaw Woman]

bfl

[Vintage Freeper]

Cloward-Piven looks like Marx updated to modern western civilization. And fits with some of the alleged Bilderberger strategies.

These strategies are taking their toll and seem to be having an effect.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Please explain for readers, now the end results of the communist “Cloward-Piven” strategy to tear down America deliberately, and the end results of so called “free trade”, are different?

Thanks.

[Vintage Freeper]

Rather than addressing your question directly by trying to refute the negatives, I would prefer to focus on the contrasts between capitalism and socialism as they address the issues to which you allude. On page 128 of CAPITALISM: A Treatise On Economics, George Reisman says the following:

"It should be equally obvious that the existence of a division-of-labor society is to the material self-interest of every individual. Whoever, in the words of Mises, prefers wealth to poverty, and life and health to sickness and death, is logically obliged to value the existence of a division-of-labor society and all that depends on. For it is the essential foundation of all significant wealth and the vital contribution made by wealth to man's life health. Take away a division-of-labor society, and production shrivels to the the level of medevil feudalism, with its consequently recurring plagues and famines and resulting average life expectancy of twenty-five years-

"Thus the widely held notion that life in society requires the sacrifice of the individual's self-interest is totally mistaken in regard to a division-of-labor society. That notion applies only in societies characterized by force and plunder..."

Ludwig von Mises touches on the division of labor in Human Action beginning on page 157.

"Experience teaches man that cooperative action is more efficient and productive than isolated action of self-sufficient individuals. The natural conditions determining man's life and effort are such that the [p. 158] division of labor increases output per unit of labor expended. These natural facts are:

First: the innate inequality of men with regard to their ability to perform various kinds of labor. Second: the unequal distribution of the nature-given, nonhuman opportunities of production on the surface of the earth. One may as well consider these two facts as one and the same fact, namely, the manifoldness of nature which makes the universe a complex of infinite varieties. If the earth's surface were such that the physical conditions of production were the same at every point and if one man were as equal to all other men as is a circle to another with the same diameter in Euclidian geometry, men would not have embarked upon the division of labor.

There is still a third fact, viz., that there are undertakings whose accomplishment exceeds the forces of a single man and requires the joint effort of several. Some of them require an expenditure of labor which no single man can perform because his capacity to work is not great enough. Others again could be accomplished by individuals; but the time which they would have to devote to the work would be so long that the result would only be attained late and would not compensate for the labor expended. In both cases only joint effort makes it possible to attain the end sought."

Mises addresses free trade in Human Action beginning on page 473 and summarizing on 477-478.

Ross Perot was repeating propaganda when he implied that giant sucking sound shipping American jobs elsewhere was related to capitalism and free trade. Capitalism and free trade create jobs and increase standards of living for all those who participate. The giant sucking sound that shipped American jobs to Mexico and China was not capitalism or free trade; it was socialism. One of our future articles will point out why Social Security should not be a sacred cow when it's actually the Trojan Horse that has shipped American jobs elsewhere.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Perot was right.

[Vintage Freeper]

There is a book by FA Harper entitled "Why Wages Rise". It is a relatively quick read and is available as a free pdf from Mises.Org.

You can click this link to download it here.

Henry Hazilitt's Economics in One Lesson can be downloaded as a free pdf by clicking here.

Mises's "Human Action" can be downloaded here.

And Reisman's "CAPITALISM" can be downloaded here.

When you have read and understood them, you will know that Perot was wrong.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

You can keep your incorrect theories, thanks all the same.

Perot’s famous “Giant Sucking Sound” reference was singularly prescient, and perhaps the finest yet allegory for the scam inaccurately called “free trade”.

Rarely has any politician, more clearly, stated truth.

Perot was so right.

[Vintage Freeper]

“Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.” George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

"Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think." — Thomas A. Edison

"Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines. Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave," he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that characterizes a man as a common man." Ludwig von Mises

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity." Steve Jobs

"Perot was wrong." Vintage Freeper

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Perot was right.