FABIAN FREEWAY - High Road to Socialism in the U.S.A.

womensgroup.org ^ | 1966 | Rose Martin

[NormsRevenge]

can’t forget to mention FDR the social security net and WW2 to restart the nation’s economy, he was the ultimate Fabianist, setting a new standard for those to follow,, and they did,, LbJ gave us the great society, and now ObamaCare, financial reform.. uhhhh.. did I forget Bubba?

[uncommonsense]

After clicking a few times finding the link, the first chapter looks intriguing:

Most revolutionary of all was the conviction that personal rights can only be honored when the political state is kept weak. In the classical dichotomy between liberty and subordination written into our imagination by Locke and Hobbes in the seventeenth century, America struggled down the libertarian road of Locke for awhile while her three godfather nations, England, Germany, and France, followed Hobbes and established leviathan states through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Toward the end, America began to follow the Old World’s lead.

For Hobbes, social order depended upon state control of the inner life, a degree of mental colonization unknown to the tyrants of history whose principal concern had been controlling the bodies of their subjects. But the sheer size of an America without national roads or electronic networks ensured that liberty would be nurtured outside the ring of government surveillance. Then, too, many Americans came out of the dissenting religious sects of England, independent congregations which rejected church-state partnerships. The bulk of our population was socially suspect anyway. Even our gentry was second and third string by English standards, gentlemen without inheritances, the rest a raggle-taggle band of wastrels, criminals, shanghaied boys, poor yeomanry, displaced peasants.

[Theophilus]

abolishing government K-12 schooling

It seems so impossible and thus coummunist totalitarian autocratic rule seems inevitable.